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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

shelf-life.com.au

Shelf-Life | Specialising in building designer book cases for over 25 years.

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

688 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to shelf-life.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Shelf Life best content right away, or after learning these important things about shelf-life.com.au

Custom bookshelf, bookcase designer and maker based in Elwood, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia with 25 years experience.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shelf-life.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 688 ms and then it took 6.3 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

shelf-life.com.au performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shelf-life.com.au

688 ms

shelf-life.com.au

1150 ms

js

91 ms

style.min.css

441 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Shelf-life.com.au, 14% (5 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Shelf-life.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 254.7 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shelf-life.com.au main page is 7.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 117.4 kB

  • Original 137.8 kB
  • After minification 134.7 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 117.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 90.5 kB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Shelf Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 369 B

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 56.1 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 46.4 kB

  • Original 86.8 kB
  • After minification 86.8 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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. Shelf-life.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 46.4 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shelf Life. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shelf-life.com.au

shelf-life.com.au

688 ms

shelf-life.com.au

shelf-life.com.au

1150 ms

js

js

91 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

441 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

swiper-bundle.min.css

67 ms

jquery.modal.min.css

jquery.modal.min.css

50 ms

style.css

style.css

654 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

661 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

879 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

668 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

swiper-bundle.min.css

13 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

swiper-bundle.min.css

11 ms

public-main.css

public-main.css

474 ms

swiper-bundle.min.js

swiper-bundle.min.js

11 ms

jquery.modal.min.js

jquery.modal.min.js

14 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

472 ms

public-main.js

public-main.js

672 ms

swiper-bundle.min.js

swiper-bundle.min.js

15 ms

css2

css2

40 ms

shelflife-01.jpg

shelflife-01.jpg

646 ms

bookcase-blue.jpg

bookcase-blue.jpg

1762 ms

bookcase-fancy-02.jpg

bookcase-fancy-02.jpg

1103 ms

bookcase-corner.jpg

bookcase-corner.jpg

1505 ms

bookcase-03.jpg

bookcase-03.jpg

1326 ms

bookcase-nicelight.jpg

bookcase-nicelight.jpg

1528 ms

bookcase-black.jpg

bookcase-black.jpg

1508 ms

image01.jpg

image01.jpg

1328 ms

image02.jpg

image02.jpg

1551 ms

image03.jpg

image03.jpg

1553 ms

image04.jpg

image04.jpg

1722 ms

image05.jpg

image05.jpg

1724 ms

google_avatar.png

google_avatar.png

1745 ms

shelf-life-custommade.png

shelf-life-custommade.png

1774 ms

shelf-life-quotes.png

shelf-life-quotes.png

1773 ms

shelf-life-25years.png

shelf-life-25years.png

1941 ms

font

font

43 ms

font

font

78 ms

Accessibility Review

shelf-life.com.au accessibility score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

shelf-life.com.au best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

shelf-life.com.au SEO score

93

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

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 Shelf-life.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 Shelf-life.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

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