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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

howellsmaritime.com.au

Marine Surveyors in Cairns, Northen Australia and servicing South East Asia — Howells Maritime Services

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

674 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

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About Website

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Howells Maritime Services are Marine Surveyors based in Cairns, Northen Australia, also servicing South East Asia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howellsmaritime.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 674 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howellsmaritime.com.au performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howellsmaritime.com.au

674 ms

screen.css

207 ms

content.css

206 ms

vnav.css

398 ms

page_bg.gif

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Howellsmaritime.com.au, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (811 ms) belongs to the original domain Howellsmaritime.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

93.1 kB

After Optimization

83.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Howellsmaritime.com.au main page is 93.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 65.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 7.8 kB
  • After minification 7.5 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 5.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 65.7 kB
  • After minification 61.8 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. Howells Maritime images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-25%

Potential reduce by 600 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Howellsmaritime.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 600 B or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (31%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howells Maritime. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

howellsmaritime.com.au

howellsmaritime.com.au

674 ms

screen.css

screen.css

207 ms

content.css

content.css

206 ms

vnav.css

vnav.css

398 ms

page_bg.gif

page_bg.gif

204 ms

header_left.gif

header_left.gif

202 ms

header_right.gif

header_right.gif

400 ms

content_bg.gif

content_bg.gif

406 ms

zac_portrait.jpg

zac_portrait.jpg

407 ms

ship_01.jpg

ship_01.jpg

405 ms

home-qualifications.jpg

home-qualifications.jpg

407 ms

button_nav.jpg

button_nav.jpg

425 ms

icon_nav_active.gif

icon_nav_active.gif

601 ms

icon_nav_inactive.gif

icon_nav_inactive.gif

606 ms

award.png

award.png

623 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

811 ms

ga.js

ga.js

13 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

howellsmaritime.com.au accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

howellsmaritime.com.au best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

howellsmaritime.com.au SEO score

62

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Howellsmaritime.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 Howellsmaritime.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

howellsmaritime.com.au

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