Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

themercury.com.au

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Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

681 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

999 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themercury.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 681 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themercury.com.au performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,330 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.353

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themercury.com.au

681 ms

check_cookie.html

53 ms

generator.html

9 ms

www.themercury.com.au

264 ms

145 ms

Our browser made a total of 513 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Themercury.com.au, 15% (76 requests) were made to Cdn.newsapi.com.au and 9% (48 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Pixel.tcog.cp1.news.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (39%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Themercury.com.au main page is 4.0 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 199.8 kB

  • Original 238.9 kB
  • After minification 197.7 kB
  • After compression 39.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 41.2 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 199.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. The Mercury images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 606.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 155.5 kB

  • Original 352.1 kB
  • After minification 351.4 kB
  • After compression 196.6 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. Themercury.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 155.5 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 247 (56%)

Requests Now

445

After Optimization

198

The browser has sent 445 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Mercury. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 102 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

themercury.com.au accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

themercury.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

themercury.com.au SEO score

83

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Themercury.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 Themercury.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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