Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

nps.org.au

NPS MedicineWise

Page Load Speed

26.1 sec in total

First Response

641 ms

Resources Loaded

25.1 sec

Page Rendered

362 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing NPS content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about nps.org.au

NPS MedicineWise is an independent, not-for-profit, evidence-based and consumer-centred organisation, working to improve the way health technologies, medicines and medical tests are prescribed and use...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nps.org.au page load time and found that the first response time was 641 ms and then it took 25.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

nps.org.au performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nps.org.au

641 ms

www.nps.org.au

839 ms

font-awesome.min.css

462 ms

bootstrap.css

691 ms

style.css

710 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Nps.org.au, 6% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Nps.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 457.4 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

655.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Nps.org.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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 526.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 102.0 kB

  • Original 127.1 kB
  • After minification 115.4 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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 102.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 526.4 kB
  • After minification 502.2 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. NPS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 119.8 kB

  • Original 198.8 kB
  • After minification 182.8 kB
  • After compression 78.9 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 119.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 211.3 kB

  • Original 260.5 kB
  • After minification 258.8 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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. Nps.org.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 211.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (37%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NPS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nps.org.au accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

nps.org.au best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nps.org.au SEO score

91

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

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 Nps.org.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 Nps.org.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 NPS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: