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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

direct.ratecity.com.au

Find Home Loans, Car & Personal Loans, Credit Cards - RateCity

Page Load Speed

18.4 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

15.7 sec

Page Rendered

288 ms

About Website

Visit direct.ratecity.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Direct Rate City content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about direct.ratecity.com.au

Find & compare leading interest rates, home loans, credit cards, personals loans and more on RateCity, one of Australia's leading financial comparison websites.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Direct.ratecity.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 16 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

direct.ratecity.com.au performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

direct.ratecity.com.au

2416 ms

responsive-2c8170eca809ed6e0b9ef0c1a4245286.css

3653 ms

omntr_s_code-c8b46cca2da8f2ccc24cd1e9548aa23d.js

7524 ms

2461880630.js

280 ms

base-b74834cff9d859e14bc0006cb4d5e9cb.js

10786 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Direct.ratecity.com.au, 20% (20 requests) were made to Assets-production.ratecity.com.au and 10% (10 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.8 sec) relates to the external source Assets-production.ratecity.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (66%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

685.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Direct.ratecity.com.au main page is 2.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 57.6 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. 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 43.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 170.1 kB
  • After minification 145.8 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, Direct Rate City needs image optimization as it can save up to 24.4 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 914.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 467.2 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 914.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 369.6 kB

  • Original 427.5 kB
  • After minification 425.4 kB
  • After compression 57.9 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. Direct.ratecity.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 369.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (67%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Direct Rate City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 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

direct.ratecity.com.au accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

direct.ratecity.com.au best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

direct.ratecity.com.au SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Direct.ratecity.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 Direct.ratecity.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 Direct Rate City. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: