Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

aquent.com.au

Aquent Australia: Global Marketing & Creative Recruitment Agency

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

809 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

438 ms

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About Website

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Aquent is an award-winning, global leader in marketing, creative, and development recruitment. Hire freelance, contract, remote, or permanent talent.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aquent.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 809 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aquent.com.au performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aquent.com.au

809 ms

normalize.min.css

265 ms

foundation.min.css

342 ms

brandon-grotesque-bold.css

292 ms

brandon-grotesque-medium.css

271 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Aquent.com.au, 23% (19 requests) were made to Assets.aquent.com and 12% (10 requests) were made to A.staticaquent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (809 ms) belongs to the original domain Aquent.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.6 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Aquent.com.au main page is 2.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 67.0 kB

  • Original 81.7 kB
  • After minification 55.8 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 25.9 kB, which is 32% 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 67.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 247.7 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Aquent needs image optimization as it can save up to 247.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 196.8 kB

  • Original 332.6 kB
  • After minification 301.7 kB
  • After compression 135.8 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 196.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (59%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aquent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aquent.com.au accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

aquent.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

SEO Factors

aquent.com.au 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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aquent.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 Aquent.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

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