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arc.gov.au

Home | Australian Research Council

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

686 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arc.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 686 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Arc.gov.au, 6% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Arc.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 696.7 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

444.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arc.gov.au main page is 1.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 419.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 78.3 kB

  • Original 94.3 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 78.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 245.5 kB
  • After minification 222.0 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. Arc Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 280.0 kB

  • Original 419.3 kB
  • After minification 384.8 kB
  • After compression 139.3 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 280.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 314.8 kB

  • Original 381.9 kB
  • After minification 378.0 kB
  • After compression 67.1 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. Arc.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 314.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (46%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arc 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

arc.gov.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Arc.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 Arc.gov.au main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Arc 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: