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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

sydneymedia.com.au

Media releases | City of Sydney - News

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

555 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

523 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sydneymedia.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 555 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sydneymedia.com.au performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sydneymedia.com.au

555 ms

media-releases

53 ms

0.ITzdbkk7.css

136 ms

ProgressBar.Cirlo5Z8.css

19 ms

Img.pR9cQBVK.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sydneymedia.com.au, 81% (29 requests) were made to Images.ctfassets.net and 14% (5 requests) were made to News.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (707 ms) relates to the external source Images.ctfassets.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.3 kB (50%)

Content Size

253.3 kB

After Optimization

127.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Sydneymedia.com.au main page is 253.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 157.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 126.3 kB

  • Original 157.4 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 31.0 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 126.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 96.0 kB
  • After minification 96.0 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. Sydney Media images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sydney Media. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

sydneymedia.com.au

sydneymedia.com.au

555 ms

media-releases

media-releases

53 ms

0.ITzdbkk7.css

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136 ms

ProgressBar.Cirlo5Z8.css

ProgressBar.Cirlo5Z8.css

19 ms

Img.pR9cQBVK.css

Img.pR9cQBVK.css

22 ms

js

js

65 ms

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92 ms

rum

rum

16 ms

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212 ms

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171 ms

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312 ms

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159 ms

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164 ms

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504 ms

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219 ms

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288 ms

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347 ms

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289 ms

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427 ms

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355 ms

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292 ms

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493 ms

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377 ms

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439 ms

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421 ms

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462 ms

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489 ms

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507 ms

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508 ms

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707 ms

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663 ms

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589 ms

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Sydney_Lunar_Festival_light_rail_George_Street.jpg

578 ms

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640 ms

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627 ms

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BROLGA_DANCE_ACADEMY_-_JosephMayers-_51_0668-Edit-Edit.jpg

661 ms

Accessibility Review

sydneymedia.com.au accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sydneymedia.com.au best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

sydneymedia.com.au SEO score

100

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

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 Sydneymedia.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 Sydneymedia.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

sydneymedia.com.au

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