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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

michaelwest.com.au

Michael West Media - investigative journalists - always independent

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

99 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

915 ms

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About Website

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

Michael West Media - always independent. Dedicated to the public interest and investigations into big business and government abuse of power .

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Key Findings

We analyzed Michaelwest.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 99 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

michaelwest.com.au performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.141

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

michaelwest.com.au

99 ms

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50 ms

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50 ms

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Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Michaelwest.com.au, 10% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Michaelwest.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 442.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Michaelwest.com.au main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 410.3 kB

  • Original 472.2 kB
  • After minification 472.0 kB
  • After compression 62.0 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 410.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Michael West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 384.5 kB
  • After minification 384.5 kB
  • After compression 368.7 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 31 B

  • Original 9.0 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Michaelwest.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (67%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Michael West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

michaelwest.com.au accessibility score

79

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

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

michaelwest.com.au 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

michaelwest.com.au SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Michaelwest.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 Michaelwest.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

michaelwest.com.au

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Michael West. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: