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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

doctorconnect.gov.au

DoctorConnect | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Doctorconnect.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

doctorconnect.gov.au performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.693

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

doctorconnect.gov.au

2051 ms

base_style.css

809 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

dha.min.js

2426 ms

custom_script.js

823 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Doctorconnect.gov.au, 5% (2 requests) were made to Health.gov.au and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Doctorconnect.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

998.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Doctorconnect.gov.au main page is 1.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 952.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 19.4 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 14.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 952.2 kB
  • After minification 925.5 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. Doctor Connect Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 151.5 kB

  • Original 217.5 kB
  • After minification 213.4 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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 151.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 10.9 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. Doctorconnect.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (11%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Doctor Connect 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

doctorconnect.gov.au

doctorconnect.gov.au

2051 ms

base_style.css

base_style.css

809 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

dha.min.js

dha.min.js

2426 ms

custom_script.js

custom_script.js

823 ms

front_page_style.css

front_page_style.css

834 ms

easyslider1.7.js

easyslider1.7.js

838 ms

print.css

print.css

270 ms

main_green_bg.jpg

main_green_bg.jpg

267 ms

ga.js

ga.js

38 ms

DoHa_logo.png

DoHa_logo.png

540 ms

Doctor_connect_logo.png

Doctor_connect_logo.png

276 ms

top_nav_bg.png

top_nav_bg.png

281 ms

subNav_bg.png

subNav_bg.png

281 ms

orange_arrow_right.png

orange_arrow_right.png

500 ms

search_box_bg.png

search_box_bg.png

533 ms

banner-1.jpg

banner-1.jpg

821 ms

banner-1.jpg

banner-1.jpg

3037 ms

banner-2.jpg

banner-2.jpg

1116 ms

banner-3.jpg

banner-3.jpg

1028 ms

banner-4.jpg

banner-4.jpg

1631 ms

banner-5.jpg

banner-5.jpg

1079 ms

banner-6.jpg

banner-6.jpg

1364 ms

banner-7.jpg

banner-7.jpg

1559 ms

banner-8.jpg

banner-8.jpg

1354 ms

tab_bg.png

tab_bg.png

1397 ms

tab_box_bg.png

tab_box_bg.png

1627 ms

hompage-content-1.jpg

hompage-content-1.jpg

1637 ms

hompage-content-2.jpg

hompage-content-2.jpg

1680 ms

map_box_bg.png

map_box_bg.png

1826 ms

hompage-content-3.jpg

hompage-content-3.jpg

1898 ms

footer_bg.png

footer_bg.png

1896 ms

tab_bg_active.png

tab_bg_active.png

1910 ms

banner_slider_dot_active.png

banner_slider_dot_active.png

1959 ms

banner_slider_dot.png

banner_slider_dot.png

2093 ms

gototop.png

gototop.png

269 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

24 ms

Accessibility Review

doctorconnect.gov.au accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

doctorconnect.gov.au best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

doctorconnect.gov.au SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 uses 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 Doctorconnect.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 Doctorconnect.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

doctorconnect.gov.au

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