Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

salonselect.com.au

Australian Hairdressing Council (the AHC) Business Directory

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

459 ms

Resources Loaded

11.1 sec

Page Rendered

442 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Salonselect.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 459 ms and then it took 11.6 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

salonselect.com.au performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,360 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.073

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

salonselect.com.au

459 ms

business-directory

8053 ms

css2

52 ms

js

97 ms

js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Salonselect.com.au, 61% (52 requests) were made to Theahc.org.au and 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.1 sec) relates to the external source Theahc.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

959.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Salonselect.com.au main page is 1.1 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 628.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 63.7 kB

  • Original 75.5 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 19.7 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 63.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 282.5 kB
  • After minification 229.4 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. Obviously, Salonselect needs image optimization as it can save up to 53.1 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 628.3 kB
  • After minification 628.3 kB
  • After compression 623.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 164 B

  • Original 95.5 kB
  • After minification 95.5 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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. Salonselect.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (54%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Salonselect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

salonselect.com.au accessibility score

84

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

salonselect.com.au best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

salonselect.com.au SEO score

98

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 Salonselect.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 Salonselect.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 Salonselect. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: