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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

vicroads.vic.gov.au

Home Page : VicRoads

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

vicroads.vic.gov.au screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Vic Roads Gov content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about vicroads.vic.gov.au

VicRoads plans, develops and manages the arterial road network, delivers road safety initiatives & customer focused registration and licensing services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vicroads.vic.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 3.6 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

vicroads.vic.gov.au performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vicroads.vic.gov.au

79 ms

vicroads.vic.gov.au

43 ms

www.vicroads.vic.gov.au

2162 ms

style.css

316 ms

head.js

953 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Vicroads.vic.gov.au, 11% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Vicroads.vic.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 294.6 kB (48%)

Content Size

610.3 kB

After Optimization

315.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vicroads.vic.gov.au main page is 610.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 374.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 293.8 kB

  • Original 374.5 kB
  • After minification 374.3 kB
  • After compression 80.7 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. 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 293.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 126.5 kB
  • After minification 126.5 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. Vic Roads Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 751 B

  • Original 101.6 kB
  • After minification 101.6 kB
  • After compression 100.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (48%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vic Roads 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vicroads.vic.gov.au

vicroads.vic.gov.au

79 ms

vicroads.vic.gov.au

vicroads.vic.gov.au

43 ms

www.vicroads.vic.gov.au

www.vicroads.vic.gov.au

2162 ms

style.css

style.css

316 ms

head.js

head.js

953 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

92 ms

HighlightClientValidation.js

HighlightClientValidation.js

296 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

281 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

329 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

319 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

363 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

333 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

283 ms

script.js

script.js

331 ms

payments.js

payments.js

331 ms

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vedd3670a3b1c4e178fdfb0cc912d969e1713874337387

64 ms

vicroadslogo.ashx

vicroadslogo.ashx

492 ms

lplate.ashx

lplate.ashx

491 ms

pplate.ashx

pplate.ashx

490 ms

car.ashx

car.ashx

491 ms

freeway-traffic-at-night.ashx

freeway-traffic-at-night.ashx

111 ms

pay_your_rego_tile_350x430.jpg

pay_your_rego_tile_350x430.jpg

112 ms

logo-vicgov.png

logo-vicgov.png

491 ms

logo-vicgov-white.png

logo-vicgov-white.png

490 ms

js

js

185 ms

js

js

410 ms

js

js

409 ms

js

js

405 ms

monsido.js

monsido.js

383 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

384 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

328 ms

onlineservices1.ashx

onlineservices1.ashx

568 ms

global.png

global.png

586 ms

nav-item.svg

nav-item.svg

586 ms

sidebarlearnercar.ashx

sidebarlearnercar.ashx

328 ms

dtp0003-road-rule-changes-campaign_370x420px_v2_fa_comp.ashx

dtp0003-road-rule-changes-campaign_370x420px_v2_fa_comp.ashx

327 ms

incidentclearing.ashx

incidentclearing.ashx

327 ms

bikebusandcarstraffic.ashx

bikebusandcarstraffic.ashx

569 ms

sidemirrorheadlightandtraffichigh.ashx

sidemirrorheadlightandtraffichigh.ashx

568 ms

vr_banner_kat.ashx

vr_banner_kat.ashx

569 ms

2954E1_0_0.woff

2954E1_0_0.woff

497 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

collect

collect

44 ms

tracking.monsido.com

tracking.monsido.com

86 ms

main.js

main.js

21 ms

Accessibility Review

vicroads.vic.gov.au accessibility score

96

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

vicroads.vic.gov.au best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

vicroads.vic.gov.au SEO score

79

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

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Vicroads.vic.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 Vicroads.vic.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

vicroads.vic.gov.au

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