Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

ccia.org.au

Children Cancer Research | Children's Cancer Institute

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

419 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Ccia content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ccia.org.au

Children’s Cancer Institute is the only independent medical research institute in Australia solely dedicated to curing childhood cancer through children cancer research. Find out about more here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ccia.org.au page load time and found that the first response time was 419 ms and then it took 8.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ccia.org.au performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ccia.org.au

419 ms

www.ccia.org.au

428 ms

www.ccia.org.au

1025 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

221 ms

jquery-migrate-3.3.1.min.js

271 ms

Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Ccia.org.au, 40% (46 requests) were made to Dvtuw1sdeyetv.cloudfront.net and 20% (23 requests) were made to D1on96qv1pxmre.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source D1on96qv1pxmre.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 200.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Ccia.org.au main page is 1.6 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 72.2 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 73.7 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 12.8 kB, which is 15% 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 72.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 100.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 968.1 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. Ccia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 354.7 kB
  • After minification 353.2 kB
  • After compression 340.4 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 95.9 kB
  • After minification 87.9 kB
  • After compression 82.4 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. Ccia.org.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (66%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ccia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ccia.org.au accessibility score

60

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

[role] values are not valid

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

ccia.org.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ccia.org.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 Ccia.org.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 Ccia.org.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 Ccia. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: