Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

qpac.com.au

Queensland Performing Arts Centre - Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC)

Page Load Speed

17.1 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

14.2 sec

Page Rendered

785 ms

qpac.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to qpac.com.au homepage info - get ready to check QPAC best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about qpac.com.au

The proud home of live performance in Queensland for almost 40 years, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), welcomes more than 1.5 million visitors to over 1,200 performances annually.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Qpac.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 15 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

qpac.com.au performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.003

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

qpac.com.au

2131 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

DependencyHandler.axd

1785 ms

logo_qpac_small.png

928 ms

logo_qpac.png

937 ms

Our browser made a total of 163 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Qpac.com.au, 39% (64 requests) were made to Qtix-cms-cdn-prod-gye4gsa5a9eehpeg.z01.azurefd.net and 2% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.curator.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.4 sec) relates to the external source Qtix-cms-cdn-prod-gye4gsa5a9eehpeg.z01.azurefd.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 245.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Qpac.com.au main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 91.4 kB

  • Original 108.6 kB
  • After minification 84.4 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 24.2 kB, which is 22% 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 91.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 145.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. QPAC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 67.5 kB
  • After minification 67.5 kB
  • After compression 59.2 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 8.4 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 164 B

  • Original 56.6 kB
  • After minification 56.5 kB
  • After compression 56.5 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. Qpac.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (14%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

79

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of QPAC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

qpac.com.au accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

qpac.com.au best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

qpac.com.au SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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