Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

loflo.com.au

Lo-Flo™ | Water Saving Garden Products for Australian Climates

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

691 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

loflo.com.au screenshot

About Website

Visit loflo.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Lo Flo content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about loflo.com.au

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Key Findings

We analyzed Loflo.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 691 ms and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

loflo.com.au performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

loflo.com.au

691 ms

loflo.com.au

2377 ms

js

58 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

217 ms

style.min.css

436 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Loflo.com.au, 13% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Loflo.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.0 kB (16%)

Content Size

948.9 kB

After Optimization

795.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Loflo.com.au main page is 948.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 320.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 119.4 kB

  • Original 147.6 kB
  • After minification 146.3 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 119.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.7 kB

  • Original 285.3 kB
  • After minification 271.6 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. Lo Flo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 320.6 kB
  • After minification 320.6 kB
  • After compression 318.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 195.4 kB
  • After minification 195.4 kB
  • After compression 177.3 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. Loflo.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (74%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lo Flo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

loflo.com.au accessibility score

68

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

loflo.com.au best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

loflo.com.au SEO score

93

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 Loflo.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 Loflo.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 Lo Flo. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: