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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

hicksons.com.au

Hicksons Lawyers - Legal and Commercial Advice, Services & Solutions

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Visit hicksons.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Hicksons content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hicksons.com.au

Hicksons is a commercial law firm assisting government, organisations and individuals in Australia and Asia by delivering legal advice, services and solutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hicksons.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hicksons.com.au performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hicksons.com.au

41 ms

hicksons.com.au

980 ms

www.hicksons.com.au

2071 ms

style.min.css

40 ms

override.css

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Hicksons.com.au, 10% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hicksons.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

999.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hicksons.com.au main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 556.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 55.2 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 63.6 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 55.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 556.8 kB
  • After minification 536.3 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. Hicksons images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 407.1 kB
  • After minification 407.0 kB
  • After compression 405.2 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 59 B

  • Original 43.6 kB
  • After minification 43.6 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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. Hicksons.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (56%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hicksons. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hicksons.com.au

hicksons.com.au

41 ms

hicksons.com.au

hicksons.com.au

980 ms

www.hicksons.com.au

www.hicksons.com.au

2071 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

40 ms

override.css

override.css

36 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

30 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

952 ms

js

js

63 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

960 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

1411 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1438 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1204 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

9 ms

api.js

api.js

41 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

29 ms

GetResource.ashx

GetResource.ashx

960 ms

vendor.min.js

vendor.min.js

509 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

512 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

151 ms

jquery.socialfeed.min.js

jquery.socialfeed.min.js

526 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

28 ms

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vcd15cbe7772f49c399c6a5babf22c1241717689176015

44 ms

hicksons-logo.svg

hicksons-logo.svg

34 ms

position.jpg

position.jpg

996 ms

position2.jpg

position2.jpg

46 ms

position-team-home.jpg

position-team-home.jpg

60 ms

Home

Home

486 ms

pattern.jpg

pattern.jpg

45 ms

cd-top-arrow.svg

cd-top-arrow.svg

45 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

956 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

243 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

243 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

274 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

80 ms

We-Create-Sustainable-Value-(1)

We-Create-Sustainable-Value-(1)

962 ms

HICKSONS-VALUES-Integrity-(1)

HICKSONS-VALUES-Integrity-(1)

1172 ms

Lawyers-Weekly-Will-The-Right-To-Disconnect-Affect

Lawyers-Weekly-Will-The-Right-To-Disconnect-Affect

244 ms

News-com-au-Bosses-Warned-Over-New-Right-to-Di

News-com-au-Bosses-Warned-Over-New-Right-to-Di

272 ms

Hicksons-Commended-For-Class-Action-Settlement-Axs

Hicksons-Commended-For-Class-Action-Settlement-Axs

767 ms

Accessibility Review

hicksons.com.au accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

hicksons.com.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

hicksons.com.au SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hicksons.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hicksons.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

hicksons.com.au

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