Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

towers.net.au

Towers Pharmacy - Internet Pharmacy, online chemist , Australia

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Towers content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about towers.net.au

Towers Pharmacy has been operating since 1967. We are based at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Towers.net.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

towers.net.au performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

towers.net.au

1605 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

1776 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js

2283 ms

advlistrotator-min.js

1019 ms

java.js

761 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Towers.net.au and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Towers.net.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 300.1 kB (37%)

Content Size

804.0 kB

After Optimization

503.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Towers.net.au main page is 804.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 416.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.5 kB, which is 11% 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 24.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 416.6 kB
  • After minification 403.0 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. Towers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 229.3 kB

  • Original 318.0 kB
  • After minification 310.4 kB
  • After compression 88.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 229.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 32.3 kB

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Towers.net.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (10%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Towers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

towers.net.au accessibility score

96

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.

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

towers.net.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

towers.net.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Towers.net.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Towers.net.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 description is not detected on the main page of Towers. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: