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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

regionalaustralia.org.au

Regional Australia Institute | Home

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

445 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Regionalaustralia.org.au page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 7.8 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

regionalaustralia.org.au performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value41.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,140 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

regionalaustralia.org.au

177 ms

2117 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

326 ms

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387 ms

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325 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Regionalaustralia.org.au, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Regionalaustralia.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (53%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Regionalaustralia.org.au main page is 2.5 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. 80% 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 967.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 111.4 kB

  • Original 127.2 kB
  • After minification 95.1 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 32.0 kB, which is 25% 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 111.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 967.5 kB
  • After minification 838.7 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. Obviously, Regional Australia needs image optimization as it can save up to 128.8 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 499.9 kB

  • Original 728.7 kB
  • After minification 708.7 kB
  • After compression 228.8 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 499.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 584.0 kB

  • Original 693.8 kB
  • After minification 628.3 kB
  • After compression 109.8 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. Regionalaustralia.org.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 584.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (55%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Regional Australia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

regionalaustralia.org.au accessibility score

84

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

regionalaustralia.org.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

regionalaustralia.org.au SEO score

71

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Regionalaustralia.org.au 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 Regionalaustralia.org.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

regionalaustralia.org.au

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