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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

rouswater.nsw.gov.au

Rous County Council - bulk water / weed biosecurity / flood mitigation

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

516 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

187 ms

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About Website

Visit rouswater.nsw.gov.au now to see the best up-to-date Rous Water Nsw Gov content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rouswater.nsw.gov.au

Rous County Council (RCC) is a multipurpose county council delivering bulk water, weed biosecurity and flood mitigation services to the Northern Rivers of NSW. RCC?s constituent councils are Lismore, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rouswater.nsw.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 516 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rouswater.nsw.gov.au performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rouswater.nsw.gov.au

516 ms

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266 ms

bootstrap.min.css

31 ms

base.css

61 ms

bff1f19dea.js

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rouswater.nsw.gov.au, 49% (33 requests) were made to Rous.nsw.gov.au and 21% (14 requests) were made to Rous.gumlet.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Rous.gumlet.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 592.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

7.3 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rouswater.nsw.gov.au main page is 7.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 83.0 kB

  • Original 92.7 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 44.4 kB, which is 48% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 83.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 479.0 kB

  • Original 7.1 MB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Rous Water Nsw Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 139.0 kB
  • After minification 138.9 kB
  • After compression 122.3 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 16.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 40.4 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 26.8 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. Rouswater.nsw.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.6 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (38%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rous Water Nsw 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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516 ms

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266 ms

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31 ms

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61 ms

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52 ms

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68 ms

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73 ms

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47 ms

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57 ms

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69 ms

jquery.min.js

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46 ms

bootstrap.min.js

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188 ms

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211 ms

jPushMenu.js

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217 ms

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217 ms

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217 ms

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217 ms

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273 ms

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283 ms

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282 ms

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280 ms

easyread.js

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280 ms

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134 ms

bg-nav.gif

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135 ms

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137 ms

logo.png

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271 ms

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271 ms

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271 ms

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273 ms

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276 ms

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647 ms

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343 ms

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Accessibility Review

rouswater.nsw.gov.au accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

rouswater.nsw.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rouswater.nsw.gov.au SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rouswater.nsw.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 Rouswater.nsw.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

rouswater.nsw.gov.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rous Water Nsw 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: