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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

brother.com.au

Brother Australia | Official Website

Page Load Speed

15.6 sec in total

First Response

680 ms

Resources Loaded

14.2 sec

Page Rendered

657 ms

About Website

Visit brother.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Brother content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about brother.com.au

Learn more about Brother's extensive range of printers, scanners, sewing machines and label printers at the Brother Australia official website.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brother.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 680 ms and then it took 14.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brother.com.au performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,620 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brother.com.au

680 ms

brother.com.au

864 ms

www.brother.com.au

1471 ms

optimized-min.css

1382 ms

optimized-min.css

870 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Brother.com.au, 7% (7 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to C.marsflag.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Brother.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 215.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brother.com.au main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 844.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 75.3 kB

  • Original 88.1 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 28.7 kB, which is 33% 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 75.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 763.0 kB
  • After minification 763.0 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. Brother images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

  • Original 844.1 kB
  • After minification 844.1 kB
  • After compression 748.8 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 95.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 191.5 kB
  • After minification 191.5 kB
  • After compression 146.3 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. Brother.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (62%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brother. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

brother.com.au accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

brother.com.au best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brother.com.au SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Brother.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Brother.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 Brother. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: