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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

pepperstone.com

Online CFD Trading Platform & Forex Broker in Australia | Pepperstone

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

483 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pepperstone.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pepperstone.com performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value26,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.563

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pepperstone.com

30 ms

pepperstone.com

160 ms

327 ms

3547092791.js

167 ms

main.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Pepperstone.com, 6% (8 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to 3547092791.log.optimizely.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (407 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 867.6 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

942.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pepperstone.com main page is 1.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 831.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 97.0 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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 80.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 626.0 kB
  • After minification 592.6 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. Pepperstone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 540.7 kB

  • Original 831.8 kB
  • After minification 830.7 kB
  • After compression 291.0 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 540.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 212.7 kB

  • Original 255.7 kB
  • After minification 255.3 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. Pepperstone.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 212.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (38%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

66

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pepperstone. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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327 ms

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167 ms

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66 ms

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197 ms

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182 ms

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177 ms

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194 ms

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193 ms

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192 ms

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191 ms

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191 ms

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190 ms

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gtm.js

157 ms

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305 ms

track.php

track.php

178 ms

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172 ms

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227 ms

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236 ms

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106 ms

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80 ms

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141 ms

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175 ms

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118 ms

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116 ms

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30 ms

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62 ms

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74 ms

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87 ms

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235 ms

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208 ms

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167 ms

Accessibility Review

pepperstone.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

pepperstone.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pepperstone.com SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pepperstone.com 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 Pepperstone.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

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