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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

acs.edu.au

ACS Distance Education

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

616 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

569 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acs.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 616 ms 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

acs.edu.au performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,920 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

acs.edu.au

616 ms

acs.edu.au

877 ms

default.aspx

1708 ms

css2

37 ms

bootstrap.min.css

786 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Acs.edu.au, 15% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Acs.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 528.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Acs.edu.au main page is 4.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 99.0 kB
  • After minification 88.9 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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. 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 62.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 268.6 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. ACS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 194.2 kB

  • Original 312.1 kB
  • After minification 299.5 kB
  • After compression 117.9 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 194.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 54.1 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. Acs.edu.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (30%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ACS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

acs.edu.au

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877 ms

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Accessibility Review

acs.edu.au accessibility score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

acs.edu.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

acs.edu.au SEO score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Acs.edu.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 Acs.edu.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

acs.edu.au

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