Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

358 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wags.org.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wags.org.au performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wags.org.au

1008 ms

membership.wags.org.au

1488 ms

css326af.css

937 ms

css7d213.css

930 ms

mootools.js

1248 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wags.org.au, 95% (58 requests) were made to Membership.wags.org.au and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Membership.wags.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 447.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

880.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Wags.org.au main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 69.7 kB

  • Original 86.3 kB
  • After minification 83.9 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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 69.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 213.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 791.9 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, Wags needs image optimization as it can save up to 213.2 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 98.3 kB

  • Original 155.7 kB
  • After minification 151.0 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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 98.3 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 66.1 kB

  • Original 81.2 kB
  • After minification 79.5 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Wags.org.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 66.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (32%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wags. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wags.org.au accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

wags.org.au best practices score

62

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

wags.org.au SEO score

62

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

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 Wags.org.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 Wags.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Wags. 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: