Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

stirling.com.au

City of Stirling - City of Choice | View Latest Updates - City of Stirling

Page Load Speed

17.1 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

15.2 sec

Page Rendered

153 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stirling.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 15.3 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

stirling.com.au performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.stirling.wa.gov.au

1826 ms

3d75914f-161b-4b1d-be3f-b88d96dc6537.css

106 ms

css

58 ms

nsp7uux.css

93 ms

main.css

5780 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Stirling.com.au, 12% (8 requests) were made to Static.klaviyo.com and 12% (8 requests) were made to Service.force.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.8 sec) relates to the external source Stirling.wa.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 973.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Stirling.com.au main page is 6.7 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 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 101.3 kB

  • Original 121.0 kB
  • After minification 121.0 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 101.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 61.2 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Stirling images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 484.2 kB

  • Original 912.6 kB
  • After minification 905.6 kB
  • After compression 428.4 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 484.2 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 327.1 kB

  • Original 385.5 kB
  • After minification 385.2 kB
  • After compression 58.5 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. Stirling.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 327.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (68%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stirling. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stirling.com.au accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

stirling.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

SEO Factors

stirling.com.au SEO score

82

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

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