Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

cathcartsantiques.com.au

Cathcart's Antiques: antique porcelain, pottery and ceramics

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

556 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

About Website

Welcome to cathcartsantiques.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Cathcart S Antiques best content right away, or after learning these important things about cathcartsantiques.com.au

Specialising in antique porcelain and pottery. Mainly English 18th century and 19th century plus oriental and european ceramics

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cathcartsantiques.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 556 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cathcartsantiques.com.au performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cathcartsantiques.com.au

556 ms

antique.js

487 ms

cathcart.css

488 ms

counter.js

19 ms

counter.asp

15 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Cathcartsantiques.com.au, 22% (4 requests) were made to 4236808.fls.doubleclick.net and 17% (3 requests) were made to Sm8.sitemeter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (732 ms) belongs to the original domain Cathcartsantiques.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

80.4 kB

After Optimization

66.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Cathcartsantiques.com.au main page is 80.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 61.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 3.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 61.2 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. Cathcart S Antiques images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 11.2 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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 8.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 2.1 kB
  • After minification 1.6 kB
  • After compression 541 B

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. Cathcartsantiques.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cathcart S Antiques. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

cathcartsantiques.com.au accessibility score

86

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

cathcartsantiques.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cathcartsantiques.com.au SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Cathcartsantiques.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 Cathcartsantiques.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 Cathcart S Antiques. 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: