Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

shadestructures.com.au

Shade Structures by Abacus - award winning designs - barrel vaults, cantilevers, shade sails, umbrellas and more. - Sydney NSW Australia based company

Page Load Speed

13.4 sec in total

First Response

3.7 sec

Resources Loaded

9.3 sec

Page Rendered

486 ms

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About Website

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Abacus Shade Structures uses waterproof PVC, shadecloth fabrics and steel to build shade structures. Shade structure and shade sail clients include schools, pre-schools,  building contractors, clubs, ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shadestructures.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 3.7 sec and then it took 9.8 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

shadestructures.com.au performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.shadestructures.com.au

3655 ms

style.min.css

30 ms

style.css

47 ms

style.css

35 ms

css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Shadestructures.com.au, 13% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Shadestructures.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 251.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

5.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Shadestructures.com.au main page is 5.5 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. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 125.4 kB

  • Original 143.1 kB
  • After minification 133.0 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 125.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 124.4 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Shade Structures images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 541.6 kB
  • After minification 541.6 kB
  • After compression 540.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 196 B

  • Original 149.0 kB
  • After minification 148.9 kB
  • After compression 148.8 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. Shadestructures.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (42%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shade Structures. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shadestructures.com.au accessibility score

71

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

shadestructures.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

shadestructures.com.au SEO score

90

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shadestructures.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 Shadestructures.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 Shade Structures. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: