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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

parentdirect.com.au

Modern Teaching Aids - Australia's largest supplier of educational resources

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

424 ms

Resources Loaded

11.9 sec

Page Rendered

115 ms

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About Website

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

Learning resources, education supplies & toys for childcare, preschool, primary school, secondary and high schools. Maths equipment, literacy resources, art & craft supplies, outdoor equipment, furnit...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parentdirect.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 424 ms and then it took 12 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

parentdirect.com.au performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parentdirect.com.au

424 ms

parentdirect.com.au

800 ms

www.teaching.com.au

1598 ms

inty.min.css

415 ms

mta.min.css

794 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Parentdirect.com.au, 58% (83 requests) were made to D2x7nmti04c7jb.cloudfront.net and 18% (26 requests) were made to Teaching.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) relates to the external source D2x7nmti04c7jb.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 940.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Parentdirect.com.au main page is 5.3 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 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 787.6 kB

  • Original 874.0 kB
  • After minification 576.9 kB
  • After compression 86.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 297.1 kB, which is 34% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 787.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 150.5 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Parentdirect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 243.0 kB
  • After minification 243.0 kB
  • After compression 241.4 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

-16%

Potential reduce by 881 B

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Parentdirect.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 881 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (27%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

95

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parentdirect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

parentdirect.com.au accessibility score

99

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

Best Practices

parentdirect.com.au best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

parentdirect.com.au SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Parentdirect.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Parentdirect.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

parentdirect.com.au

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