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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

hydroworld.com.au

Hydroponic Shop Australia | Online Hydroponic Supplies & Equipment

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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About Website

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

HydroWorld is one of Australia's largest and longest running hydroponics shops. See us for all your hydroponic shopping needs, online and in store.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hydroworld.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 2.4 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

hydroworld.com.au performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.162

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hydroworld.com.au

163 ms

www.hydroworld.com.au

682 ms

css

93 ms

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140 ms

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119 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Hydroworld.com.au, 65% (32 requests) were made to Cdn11.bigcommerce.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (868 ms) relates to the external source Cdn11.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 381.8 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

744.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Hydroworld.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 583.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 381.6 kB

  • Original 442.1 kB
  • After minification 378.0 kB
  • After compression 60.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 64.2 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 381.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 583.0 kB
  • After minification 583.0 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. Hydroworld images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 182 B

  • Original 101.3 kB
  • After minification 101.3 kB
  • After compression 101.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (34%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hydroworld. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hydroworld.com.au

hydroworld.com.au

163 ms

www.hydroworld.com.au

www.hydroworld.com.au

682 ms

css

css

93 ms

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140 ms

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119 ms

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107 ms

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113 ms

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theme-editor-responsive-688543e0-7c6d-013c-0a69-1a037cb3f448.css

146 ms

loader.js

loader.js

137 ms

js

js

460 ms

theme-bundle.main.js

theme-bundle.main.js

204 ms

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201 ms

visitor_stencil.js

visitor_stencil.js

202 ms

present-afterpay.js

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88 ms

jquery.min.js

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90 ms

fbevents.js

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678 ms

analytics.js

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678 ms

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627 ms

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Home_Slider_1.jpg

805 ms

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626 ms

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626 ms

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807 ms

Home_Slider_6.jpg

Home_Slider_6.jpg

626 ms

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hydroworld-h-g-slider-2019.gif

868 ms

loading.svg

loading.svg

805 ms

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807 ms

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606 ms

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658 ms

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669 ms

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582 ms

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243 ms

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247 ms

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240 ms

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246 ms

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244 ms

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185 ms

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78 ms

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166 ms

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166 ms

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48 ms

Accessibility Review

hydroworld.com.au accessibility score

77

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

hydroworld.com.au best practices score

67

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

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

hydroworld.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 Hydroworld.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 Hydroworld.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

hydroworld.com.au

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