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cartercreative.com.au

Creative Web Design & Development | Social Media | Melbourne, Australia

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

About Website

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Carter Digital, a boutique web design & web development team, focusing on web design standards, usability & accessibility to create user centered solutions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cartercreative.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cartercreative.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cartercreative.com.au

1068 ms

carter.css

112 ms

top_logo.png

231 ms

blogger.js

155 ms

urchin.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Cartercreative.com.au, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source W3csites.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

157.6 kB

After Optimization

126.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Cartercreative.com.au main page is 157.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 125.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 10.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 125.3 kB
  • After minification 114.1 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. Carter Creative images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 8.3 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 2.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Cartercreative.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carter Creative. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

SEO Factors

cartercreative.com.au SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

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