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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

hotcopper.com

HotCopper | ASX Share Prices, Stock Market & Share Trading Forum

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

626 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

393 ms

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About Website

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

HotCopper is Australia's largest free and independent stock market trading forum for ASX investors to discuss share prices, the stock market and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hotcopper.com page load time and found that the first response time was 626 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hotcopper.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,450 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hotcopper.com

626 ms

hotcopper.com.au

1393 ms

rta.js

23 ms

gpt.js

9 ms

css.php

526 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hotcopper.com, 38% (17 requests) were made to Hotcopper.com.au and 16% (7 requests) were made to S.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Hotcopper.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (54%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

880.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hotcopper.com main page is 1.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 862.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 231.2 kB

  • Original 277.3 kB
  • After minification 257.6 kB
  • After compression 46.2 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 231.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 514.2 kB
  • After minification 507.8 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. Hot Copper images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 579.6 kB

  • Original 862.2 kB
  • After minification 795.6 kB
  • After compression 282.5 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 579.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 233.3 kB

  • Original 277.7 kB
  • After minification 276.5 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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. Hotcopper.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 233.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (50%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hot Copper. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hotcopper.com

hotcopper.com

626 ms

hotcopper.com.au

hotcopper.com.au

1393 ms

rta.js

rta.js

23 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

9 ms

css.php

css.php

526 ms

stylezcb1452240957.css

stylezcb1452240957.css

1025 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

8 ms

pubads_impl_82.js

pubads_impl_82.js

11 ms

container.html

container.html

12 ms

xenforozcb1452240957.js

xenforozcb1452240957.js

1044 ms

highstock.js

highstock.js

1256 ms

charts.js

charts.js

507 ms

hcpostview.js

hcpostview.js

517 ms

xen.ui.totop.js

xen.ui.totop.js

585 ms

require.min.js

require.min.js

786 ms

hotcopper.logo.AU.png

hotcopper.logo.AU.png

471 ms

hcspriteszcb1452240957.png

hcspriteszcb1452240957.png

837 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

530 ms

nL5N16P3D1_2016318.JPG

nL5N16P3D1_2016318.JPG

925 ms

nL3N16Q38B_2016318.JPG

nL3N16Q38B_2016318.JPG

1008 ms

nL3N16Q1Z2_2016318.JPG

nL3N16Q1Z2_2016318.JPG

838 ms

ads

ads

357 ms

ui.totop_black.png

ui.totop_black.png

767 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

6 ms

gemini.js

gemini.js

36 ms

collect

collect

8 ms

collect

collect

81 ms

collect

collect

8 ms

g-d-min.js

g-d-min.js

13 ms

ssi

ssi

179 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

43 ms

cb-1453335293438-2041.plain

cb-1453335293438-2041.plain

11 ms

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116 ms

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120 ms

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131 ms

syndication@2x.png

syndication@2x.png

101 ms

tags.js

tags.js

384 ms

tags.js

tags.js

379 ms

6643979530156261831

6643979530156261831

105 ms

osd.js

osd.js

27 ms

2-1x1_-_Impression_Tracker.gif

2-1x1_-_Impression_Tracker.gif

27 ms

mainzcb1452240957.js

mainzcb1452240957.js

493 ms

tags.js

tags.js

321 ms

tags.js

tags.js

314 ms

displayAd.js

displayAd.js

107 ms

Accessibility Review

hotcopper.com accessibility score

87

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hotcopper.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hotcopper.com SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Hotcopper.com 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 Hotcopper.com 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

hotcopper.com

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