Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

sha.com.au

Home - Student Housing Australia

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

629 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

377 ms

sha.com.au screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sha content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sha.com.au

Student Accommodation in Melbourne. At Student Housing Australia we provide more than just a student rental accommodation solution. We endeavour to contribute experience to each students stay with us.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sha.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 629 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sha.com.au performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sha.com.au

629 ms

sha.com.au

1884 ms

535c3.css

993 ms

css

43 ms

js

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Sha.com.au, 17% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Sha.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (29%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sha.com.au main page is 4.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 115.9 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 123.9 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 115.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Sha images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 749.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 550.7 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 749.7 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 344.5 kB

  • Original 408.4 kB
  • After minification 406.4 kB
  • After compression 63.9 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. Sha.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 344.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (46%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sha. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sha.com.au accessibility score

73

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

sha.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sha.com.au SEO score

77

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

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