Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

choosingaschool.thewest.com.au

How to make the right education choices for your child | The West Australian

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

449 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Choosingaschool.thewest.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

choosingaschool.thewest.com.au performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,860 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

choosingaschool.thewest.com.au

12 ms

58 ms

gtm.js

81 ms

story.12080.min.css

50 ms

theme.min.css

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Choosingaschool.thewest.com.au, 11% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (285 ms) relates to the external source S.infogram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Choosingaschool.thewest.com.au main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 52.0 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 70.3 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 52.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Choosingaschool The West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 815.9 kB
  • After minification 815.9 kB
  • After compression 756.1 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 0 B

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 34.3 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. Choosingaschool.thewest.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (47%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Choosingaschool The West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

choosingaschool.thewest.com.au accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

choosingaschool.thewest.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

choosingaschool.thewest.com.au SEO score

92

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