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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

housinglocal.com.au

Housing Online - Our national housing magazine - in digital

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

202 ms

About Website

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

HOUSING, our national magazine is Australia’s most respected industry publication. Published five times a year and designed to keep HIA members up-to-date.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housinglocal.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housinglocal.com.au performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housinglocal.com.au

2157 ms

utilities.css

529 ms

main-style-housinglocal.css

1057 ms

housinglocal-theme.css

800 ms

housinglocal-custom.css

535 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Housinglocal.com.au, 6% (3 requests) were made to Ads.hia.com.au and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Ads.hia.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.0 kB (62%)

Content Size

272.6 kB

After Optimization

103.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Housinglocal.com.au main page is 272.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 98.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 31.1 kB

  • Original 43.5 kB
  • After minification 38.9 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 4.6 kB, which is 11% 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 31.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 56.0 kB
  • After minification 47.3 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. Obviously, Housing Local needs image optimization as it can save up to 8.7 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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 66.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 62.4 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 51.4 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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. Housinglocal.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 62.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (41%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housing Local. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

housinglocal.com.au accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

housinglocal.com.au best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

housinglocal.com.au SEO score

86

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Housinglocal.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 Housinglocal.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 description is not detected on the main page of Housing Local. 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: