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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

startingblocks.gov.au

Home | Early Childhood Education & Care | StartingBlocks.gov.au

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

847 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

370 ms

startingblocks.gov.au screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startingblocks.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 847 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

startingblocks.gov.au performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

startingblocks.gov.au

847 ms

ac3e4c028486b405.css

209 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

422 ms

webpack-67c665f0571ecaf9.js

633 ms

framework-919f86e36c097ac3.js

1176 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Startingblocks.gov.au, 11% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.sanity.io and 6% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Startingblocks.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

212.6 kB

After Optimization

177.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Startingblocks.gov.au main page is 212.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 186.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 26.7 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 19.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 186.0 kB
  • After minification 169.8 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. Starting Blocks Gov images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (65%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Starting Blocks 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

startingblocks.gov.au

startingblocks.gov.au

847 ms

ac3e4c028486b405.css

ac3e4c028486b405.css

209 ms

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

polyfills-c67a75d1b6f99dc8.js

422 ms

webpack-67c665f0571ecaf9.js

webpack-67c665f0571ecaf9.js

633 ms

framework-919f86e36c097ac3.js

framework-919f86e36c097ac3.js

1176 ms

main-2828a5f734a4dde2.js

main-2828a5f734a4dde2.js

1015 ms

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_app-15277fd6204583fe.js

1219 ms

28574-08a52d6c92d2a342.js

28574-08a52d6c92d2a342.js

1221 ms

31861-43f846602aecdf19.js

31861-43f846602aecdf19.js

1416 ms

61233-9c37582e6384f383.js

61233-9c37582e6384f383.js

865 ms

index-ec3116823237c020.js

index-ec3116823237c020.js

1089 ms

_buildManifest.js

_buildManifest.js

1220 ms

_ssgManifest.js

_ssgManifest.js

1312 ms

1c8a252e30cae5bfb017958437bdda3640baaf21-624x676.jpg

1c8a252e30cae5bfb017958437bdda3640baaf21-624x676.jpg

27 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

1377 ms

171ce000c9793d04fae41582ccaf70827e6366a5-556x408.jpg

171ce000c9793d04fae41582ccaf70827e6366a5-556x408.jpg

273 ms

js

js

96 ms

logo-light.png

logo-light.png

1632 ms

Accessibility Review

startingblocks.gov.au accessibility score

95

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

startingblocks.gov.au best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

startingblocks.gov.au SEO score

93

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

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

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 Startingblocks.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 Startingblocks.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

startingblocks.gov.au

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