Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

484 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

331 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tradingpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 484 ms and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tradingpost.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,300 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.007

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tradingpost.com

484 ms

www.tradingpost.com.au

1027 ms

gpt.js

65 ms

allcss.min.css

487 ms

adsbygoogle.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Tradingpost.com, 15% (17 requests) were made to Tradingpost.com.au and 10% (11 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Img.tradingpost.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 930.9 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

860.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Tradingpost.com main page is 1.8 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. Javascripts take 565.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 209.8 kB

  • Original 290.1 kB
  • After minification 288.7 kB
  • After compression 80.3 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 209.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 444.3 kB
  • After minification 438.2 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. Tradingpost images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 304.9 kB

  • Original 565.3 kB
  • After minification 556.9 kB
  • After compression 260.4 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 304.9 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 410.1 kB

  • Original 491.5 kB
  • After minification 491.3 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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. Tradingpost.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 410.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (62%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tradingpost. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tradingpost.com accessibility score

77

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

tradingpost.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

tradingpost.com SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tradingpost.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Tradingpost.com 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 description is not detected on the main page of Tradingpost. 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: