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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

openaustralia.org

OpenAustralia.org: Are your Representatives and Senators working for you in Australia's Parliament?

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

475 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

144 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Openaustralia.org page load time and found that the first response time was 475 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

openaustralia.org performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

openaustralia.org

475 ms

www.openaustralia.org.au

622 ms

global.css

233 ms

global_non_ns4.css

465 ms

demographic-survey.min.js

463 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Openaustralia.org, 58% (7 requests) were made to Openaustralia.org.au and 17% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (622 ms) relates to the external source Openaustralia.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.1 kB (47%)

Content Size

64.5 kB

After Optimization

34.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Openaustralia.org main page is 64.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 20.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 14.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 111 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.6 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. Open Australia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 547 B

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Openaustralia.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (30%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open Australia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

openaustralia.org

openaustralia.org

475 ms

www.openaustralia.org.au

www.openaustralia.org.au

622 ms

global.css

global.css

233 ms

global_non_ns4.css

global_non_ns4.css

465 ms

demographic-survey.min.js

demographic-survey.min.js

463 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

print.css

print.css

242 ms

openaustraliaorgbeta.gif

openaustraliaorgbeta.gif

233 ms

donate_greenL.png

donate_greenL.png

232 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

87 ms

timeline.d11f7a3b3287fb94220e8ee6d03cc772.js

timeline.d11f7a3b3287fb94220e8ee6d03cc772.js

139 ms

Accessibility Review

openaustralia.org accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

openaustralia.org 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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

openaustralia.org SEO score

94

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Openaustralia.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Openaustralia.org main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

openaustralia.org

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