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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

austchoice.com.au

AustChoice Master Trusts / Home

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

943 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

782 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Austchoice.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 943 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

austchoice.com.au performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

austchoice.com.au

943 ms

common.css

303 ms

home.css

523 ms

ap.css

681 ms

nav.css

677 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Austchoice.com.au, 6% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Img.en25.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Austchoice.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.9 kB (25%)

Content Size

194.5 kB

After Optimization

145.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Austchoice.com.au main page is 194.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 113.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 13.1 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 4.5 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 14.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 113.8 kB
  • After minification 111.0 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. Aust Choice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 12.6 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. Austchoice.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (66%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aust Choice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

austchoice.com.au

austchoice.com.au

943 ms

common.css

common.css

303 ms

home.css

home.css

523 ms

ap.css

ap.css

681 ms

nav.css

nav.css

677 ms

skin.css

skin.css

677 ms

script.js

script.js

674 ms

sifr.js

sifr.js

732 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

734 ms

sifr-screen.css

sifr-screen.css

888 ms

logo_austchoice.gif

logo_austchoice.gif

303 ms

bg_top_nav_left.gif

bg_top_nav_left.gif

303 ms

PLA-12844-AustChoice-banner.jpg

PLA-12844-AustChoice-banner.jpg

1822 ms

bg_nav.gif

bg_nav.gif

249 ms

bg_top_nav.gif

bg_top_nav.gif

237 ms

bg_topnav.gif

bg_topnav.gif

242 ms

button_search_grey.gif

button_search_grey.gif

232 ms

bg_nav_footer.gif

bg_nav_footer.gif

240 ms

button_austchoice_super_off.gif

button_austchoice_super_off.gif

240 ms

bg_nav_footer.gif

bg_nav_footer.gif

503 ms

icon_link.gif

icon_link.gif

438 ms

701624_74homethumb_about.jpg

701624_74homethumb_about.jpg

440 ms

bg_read_more.gif

bg_read_more.gif

454 ms

701626_17homethumb_super.jpg

701626_17homethumb_super.jpg

455 ms

701623_95homepage_calculators.jpg

701623_95homepage_calculators.jpg

476 ms

FMOTY-Awards-sml.jpg

FMOTY-Awards-sml.jpg

730 ms

Man-with-baby-sml.jpg

Man-with-baby-sml.jpg

730 ms

IOOF_group_logo3.gif

IOOF_group_logo3.gif

652 ms

ga.js

ga.js

41 ms

elqCfg.min.js

elqCfg.min.js

48 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

29 ms

svrGP

svrGP

74 ms

print.css

print.css

230 ms

sifr-print.css

sifr-print.css

224 ms

Accessibility Review

austchoice.com.au accessibility score

78

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.

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

austchoice.com.au best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

austchoice.com.au SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Austchoice.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 Austchoice.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

austchoice.com.au

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