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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

heron.com.au

Web Server's Default Page

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

588 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

406 ms

heron.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to heron.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Heron best content right away, or after learning these important things about heron.com.au

Heron Technology Group is a leading Melbourne based signage manufacturer located in Braeside, Victoria.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heron.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 588 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

heron.com.au performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

heron.com.au

588 ms

overwrite.scss

527 ms

mootools-core-full-nocompat-yc.min.js

168 ms

fx.smoothscroll.js

718 ms

iscroll,nav,global.fjs

679 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Heron.com.au, 7% (3 requests) were made to Api.tiles.mapbox.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 sec) belongs to the original domain Heron.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

980.4 kB

After Optimization

952.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Heron.com.au main page is 980.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 946.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 13.4 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 9.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 946.0 kB
  • After minification 927.7 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. Heron images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (14%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heron. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

heron.com.au

heron.com.au

588 ms

overwrite.scss

overwrite.scss

527 ms

mootools-core-full-nocompat-yc.min.js

mootools-core-full-nocompat-yc.min.js

168 ms

fx.smoothscroll.js

fx.smoothscroll.js

718 ms

iscroll,nav,global.fjs

iscroll,nav,global.fjs

679 ms

mapbox.js

mapbox.js

35 ms

mapbox.css

mapbox.css

37 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

117 ms

logo-desktop.png

logo-desktop.png

434 ms

nav-active.png

nav-active.png

221 ms

pattern.jpg

pattern.jpg

645 ms

laser-cutting.jpg

laser-cutting.jpg

1068 ms

laser-cutting.png

laser-cutting.png

432 ms

laser-cutting-repeat.png

laser-cutting-repeat.png

433 ms

button-white.png

button-white.png

438 ms

water-jet.jpg

water-jet.jpg

1288 ms

water-jet.png

water-jet.png

651 ms

water-jet-repeat.png

water-jet-repeat.png

652 ms

metal-acrylic.jpg

metal-acrylic.jpg

1291 ms

metal-acrylic.png

metal-acrylic.png

862 ms

metal-acrylic-repeat.png

metal-acrylic-repeat.png

867 ms

signage.jpg

signage.jpg

1506 ms

signage.png

signage.png

1082 ms

signage-repeat.png

signage-repeat.png

1085 ms

down.png

down.png

1284 ms

content.png

content.png

1299 ms

button.png

button.png

1303 ms

sponsor.jpg

sponsor.jpg

1504 ms

sponsor.png

sponsor.png

1715 ms

enquirybg.jpg

enquirybg.jpg

1719 ms

button-hue.png

button-hue.png

1515 ms

footer-desktop.png

footer-desktop.png

1731 ms

logo.png

logo.png

1721 ms

down-hue-desktop.png

down-hue-desktop.png

1720 ms

Helvetica%2055%20Roman.woff

Helvetica%2055%20Roman.woff

1732 ms

Helvetica%2065%20Medium.woff

Helvetica%2065%20Medium.woff

1932 ms

Helvetica%2035%20Thin.woff

Helvetica%2035%20Thin.woff

1935 ms

Helvetica%2075%20Bold.woff

Helvetica%2075%20Bold.woff

1942 ms

Helvetica%2067%20Medium%20Condensed.woff

Helvetica%2067%20Medium%20Condensed.woff

1943 ms

Helvetica%2077%20Bold%20Condensed.woff

Helvetica%2077%20Bold%20Condensed.woff

1949 ms

untitled-font-1.woff

untitled-font-1.woff

1950 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

js

js

60 ms

showandtellheron.j7mhgdpn.json

showandtellheron.j7mhgdpn.json

7 ms

icons-000000.png

icons-000000.png

3 ms

Accessibility Review

heron.com.au accessibility score

85

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

heron.com.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

heron.com.au SEO score

92

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 Heron.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 Heron.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

heron.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Heron. 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: