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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

alcohol.gov.au

Department of Health and Aged Care | Welcome to the Department of Health and Aged Care

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

127 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alcohol.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alcohol.gov.au performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alcohol.gov.au

1897 ms

style.css

1143 ms

yourhealth_alcohol.css

582 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

dha.min.js

2678 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Alcohol.gov.au, 21% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 16% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Health.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 419.3 kB (63%)

Content Size

670.8 kB

After Optimization

251.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alcohol.gov.au main page is 670.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 588.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 34.6 kB

  • Original 51.5 kB
  • After minification 51.1 kB
  • After compression 16.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 34.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 9.5 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Alcohol Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 367.6 kB

  • Original 588.5 kB
  • After minification 586.1 kB
  • After compression 220.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 367.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 4.2 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Alcohol.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (44%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alcohol Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alcohol.gov.au

alcohol.gov.au

1897 ms

style.css

style.css

1143 ms

yourhealth_alcohol.css

yourhealth_alcohol.css

582 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

33 ms

dha.min.js

dha.min.js

2678 ms

styleswitcher.js

styleswitcher.js

582 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

603 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

15 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

186 ms

index_r1_c1.gif

index_r1_c1.gif

406 ms

index_r1_c3.jpg

index_r1_c3.jpg

609 ms

ga.js

ga.js

67 ms

gototop.png

gototop.png

299 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

50 ms

273.33dc1e6c32820cabb584.js

273.33dc1e6c32820cabb584.js

35 ms

collect

collect

16 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

78 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

77 ms

print.css

print.css

300 ms

Accessibility Review

alcohol.gov.au accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

alcohol.gov.au best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alcohol.gov.au SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Alcohol.gov.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Alcohol.gov.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

alcohol.gov.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Alcohol Gov. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: