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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

vrc.com.au

Flemington | Victoria Racing Club | Melbourne Cup Carnival

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

837 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

714 ms

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About Website

Welcome to vrc.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Vrc best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about vrc.com.au

Visit Flemington Racecourse, home of the world-renowned Melbourne Cup Carnival and Victoria Racing Club and the Lexus Melbourne Cup, the race that stops the nation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vrc.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 837 ms and then it took 5.3 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

vrc.com.au performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vrc.com.au

837 ms

www.vrc.com.au

1435 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

vrc.css

94 ms

main.js

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Vrc.com.au, 27% (24 requests) were made to Cdn-vrc-mccwebsite-prod.azureedge.net and 10% (9 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Vrc.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 383.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vrc.com.au main page is 3.3 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. 75% 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. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 144.7 kB

  • Original 206.9 kB
  • After minification 184.6 kB
  • After compression 62.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 22.3 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 144.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Vrc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 210.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 836.0 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 210.1 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 149.5 kB
  • After minification 149.5 kB
  • After compression 120.5 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. Vrc.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (30%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vrc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

vrc.com.au accessibility score

76

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

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

vrc.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vrc.com.au SEO score

85

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Vrc.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 Vrc.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

vrc.com.au

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