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goldcoasttourism.com.au

Destination Gold Coast | Official Gold Coast Tourism Website

Page Load Speed

13.8 sec in total

First Response

986 ms

Resources Loaded

11.8 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goldcoasttourism.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 986 ms and then it took 12.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goldcoasttourism.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

goldcoasttourism.com.au

986 ms

www.verygc.com

706 ms

www.visitgoldcoast.com

3339 ms

default-empty.css

458 ms

ie.css

458 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Goldcoasttourism.com.au, 48% (92 requests) were made to Visitgoldcoast.com and 6% (11 requests) were made to Assetscdn.stackla.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) relates to the external source Visitgoldcoast.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (24%)

Content Size

10.9 MB

After Optimization

8.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Goldcoasttourism.com.au main page is 10.9 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 159.6 kB
  • After minification 150.3 kB
  • After compression 46.4 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 113.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 101.0 kB

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 7.6 MB

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. Gold Coast Tourism images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 604.8 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 2.1 MB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 317.5 kB

  • Original 386.2 kB
  • After minification 308.1 kB
  • After compression 68.7 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. Goldcoasttourism.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 317.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (51%)

Requests Now

172

After Optimization

84

The browser has sent 172 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gold Coast Tourism. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

goldcoasttourism.com.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 Goldcoasttourism.com.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 Goldcoasttourism.com.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gold Coast Tourism. 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: