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myballarat.com

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Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

932 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Myballarat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Myballarat.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

myballarat.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

myballarat.com

1862 ms

jquery.min.js

1202 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1113 ms

bootstrap.min.js

816 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

933 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Myballarat.com, 21% (19 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net and 14% (13 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Ballarat.vic.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (34%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Myballarat.com main page is 5.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 91.4 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 107.7 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 91.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 252.2 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. My Ballarat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 405.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 392.0 kB

  • Original 461.1 kB
  • After minification 441.7 kB
  • After compression 69.2 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. Myballarat.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 392.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (41%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Ballarat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

myballarat.com SEO score

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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 Myballarat.com 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 Myballarat.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of My Ballarat. 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: