Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

thebigbus.com.au

The Big Bus tour and travel guide | Best Tours & Travel Ideas

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

972 ms

Page Rendered

68 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Big Bus content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thebigbus.com.au

The Big Bus tour and travel guide brings you top tours and travel ideas. Book hundreds of Australian day tours and experiences, and research every aspect of your holiday.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebigbus.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebigbus.com.au performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

90/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebigbus.com.au

68 ms

topoztours.com.au

902 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thebigbus.com.au, 50% (1 request) were made to Topoztours.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (902 ms) relates to the external source Topoztours.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thebigbus.com.au main page is 5.4 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 23 B

  • Original 177 B
  • After minification 177 B
  • After compression 154 B

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 23 B or 13% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 70.0 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.8 MB

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. The Big Bus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 294.3 kB
  • After minification 294.3 kB
  • After compression 290.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 281.6 kB
  • After minification 279.6 kB
  • After compression 273.9 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. Thebigbus.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

SEO Factors

thebigbus.com.au SEO score

75

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Thebigbus.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 Thebigbus.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 The Big Bus. 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: