Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

privateschoolsdirectory.com.au

The Private Schools Directory - The trusted online guide to all Australian Private Schools

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

668 ms

Resources Loaded

10.8 sec

Page Rendered

293 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Privateschoolsdirectory.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 668 ms and then it took 11.1 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

privateschoolsdirectory.com.au performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

privateschoolsdirectory.com.au

668 ms

privateschoolsdirectory.com.au

3311 ms

schools.css

427 ms

schools-adaptive.css

643 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

1066 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Privateschoolsdirectory.com.au, 40% (26 requests) were made to Australiandirectories.com.au and 15% (10 requests) were made to Australianschoolsdirectory.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) relates to the external source Australianschoolsdirectory.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 967.4 kB (20%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Privateschoolsdirectory.com.au main page is 5.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 48.2 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 12.5 kB, which is 26% 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 40.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 660.1 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Obviously, Private Schools Directory needs image optimization as it can save up to 660.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 234.2 kB

  • Original 348.4 kB
  • After minification 337.9 kB
  • After compression 114.2 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 234.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 31.7 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Privateschoolsdirectory.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (11%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Private Schools Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

privateschoolsdirectory.com.au accessibility score

57

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

privateschoolsdirectory.com.au best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

privateschoolsdirectory.com.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Private Schools Directory. 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: