Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

hostevents.com.au

Start Planning Your Event or Wedding Today | Host Events

Page Load Speed

36.4 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

25.4 sec

Page Rendered

9.5 sec

hostevents.com.au screenshot

About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostevents.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 34.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostevents.com.au performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value26,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hostevents.com.au

1498 ms

owl.carousel.css

492 ms

owl.theme.default.css

687 ms

custom-style.css

710 ms

rtcl-public.min.css

984 ms

Our browser made a total of 177 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (142 requests) were addressed to the original Hostevents.com.au, 8% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Hostevents.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 334.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Hostevents.com.au main page is 2.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 209.8 kB

  • Original 244.4 kB
  • After minification 238.4 kB
  • After compression 34.7 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 209.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 105.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Host Events images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 54.1 kB
  • After minification 54.1 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 18.4 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 137 (87%)

Requests Now

157

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 157 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Host Events. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 80 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 59 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hostevents.com.au accessibility score

82

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

hostevents.com.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hostevents.com.au SEO score

97

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Host Events. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: