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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

houseboats.com.au

Unforgettable Houseboats ~ Houseboat Hire, Murray River South Australia

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

694 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

451 ms

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About Website

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

Unforgettable Houseboats is Australia's most awarded houseboat fleet hirer. Luxury houseboats on the Murray River in Mannum, South Australia. Ideal for your next houseboat holiday.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houseboats.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 694 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houseboats.com.au performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houseboats.com.au

694 ms

houseboats.com.au

1097 ms

yls4qid.css

71 ms

main-min.css

226 ms

jquery.min.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Houseboats.com.au, 17% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Houseboats.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 403.8 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houseboats.com.au main page is 4.9 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. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 25.5 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 22.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 381.7 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Houseboats images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 31.0 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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 5 B

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 10 (27%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houseboats. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

houseboats.com.au

houseboats.com.au

694 ms

houseboats.com.au

houseboats.com.au

1097 ms

yls4qid.css

yls4qid.css

71 ms

main-min.css

main-min.css

226 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

443 ms

main.js

main.js

649 ms

svgxuse.min.js

svgxuse.min.js

649 ms

icon-sprite.svg

icon-sprite.svg

650 ms

logo-unforgettable.png

logo-unforgettable.png

1289 ms

banner-home-test.-x-small.png

banner-home-test.-x-small.png

2144 ms

tri-uh-home-right.-small.png

tri-uh-home-right.-small.png

1725 ms

tri-uh-home-left.-small.png

tri-uh-home-left.-small.png

1929 ms

logoSA.png

logoSA.png

863 ms

sata-uh-2010hf-1.png

sata-uh-2010hf-1.png

1078 ms

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sata-uh-2010.png

1291 ms

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1294 ms

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1506 ms

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1508 ms

sata-uh-2007-1.png

sata-uh-2007-1.png

1510 ms

banner-uh-boat3.-thumb.png

banner-uh-boat3.-thumb.png

2146 ms

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banner-uh-boat5-1.-thumb.png

2148 ms

banner-uh-boat6.-thumb.png

banner-uh-boat6.-thumb.png

2151 ms

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banner-uh-boat10-1.-thumb.png

1940 ms

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banner-uh-boat11-1.-thumb.png

2145 ms

banner-uh-boat12.-thumb.png

banner-uh-boat12.-thumb.png

2157 ms

logoHHA-Member.png

logoHHA-Member.png

2358 ms

logo-bia.png

logo-bia.png

2363 ms

logo-ticsa-member.png

logo-ticsa-member.png

2365 ms

logo-tqual.png

logo-tqual.png

2363 ms

p.css

p.css

17 ms

callout-uh-fleet-2.png

callout-uh-fleet-2.png

2336 ms

bkgr-lines-box.png

bkgr-lines-box.png

2126 ms

callout-uh-book-2.png

callout-uh-book-2.png

2331 ms

callout-uh-plan.png

callout-uh-plan.png

2338 ms

callout-uh-extras-1.png

callout-uh-extras-1.png

2546 ms

icon-wave.svg

icon-wave.svg

2334 ms

bkgr-lines-tri.png

bkgr-lines-tri.png

2342 ms

bkgr-footer.webp

bkgr-footer.webp

2553 ms

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Accessibility Review

houseboats.com.au accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

houseboats.com.au best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

houseboats.com.au SEO score

92

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

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 Houseboats.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 Houseboats.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

houseboats.com.au

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