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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

citywestwater.com.au

Home | Greater Western Water

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

792 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

132 ms

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About Website

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

We provide drinking water, sewerage, trade waste and recycled water services to customers in the City West Water service area comprising of Melbourne's CBD and western suburbs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citywestwater.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 792 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citywestwater.com.au performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citywestwater.com.au

792 ms

www.citywestwater.com.au

796 ms

style.css

544 ms

slideshow.css

528 ms

jquery_fancybox.css

529 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Citywestwater.com.au, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Citywestwater.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 455.4 kB (54%)

Content Size

839.8 kB

After Optimization

384.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citywestwater.com.au main page is 839.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 430.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 6.9 kB, which is 35% 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 15.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 250.1 kB
  • After minification 243.1 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. Citywest Water images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 310.8 kB

  • Original 430.2 kB
  • After minification 417.9 kB
  • After compression 119.5 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 310.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 121.6 kB

  • Original 139.7 kB
  • After minification 113.8 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Citywestwater.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (59%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citywest Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

citywestwater.com.au

citywestwater.com.au

792 ms

www.citywestwater.com.au

www.citywestwater.com.au

796 ms

style.css

style.css

544 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

528 ms

jquery_fancybox.css

jquery_fancybox.css

529 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom.css

530 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

803 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

1079 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

793 ms

jsapi

jsapi

18 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom.min.js

1059 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.2.1.pack.js

793 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

819 ms

jquery.pagination.js

jquery.pagination.js

1056 ms

jquery.cycle.lite.min.js

jquery.cycle.lite.min.js

1056 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1069 ms

slideshow.js

slideshow.js

1073 ms

main_bg.png

main_bg.png

501 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

42 ms

hotjar-156271.js

hotjar-156271.js

135 ms

1X1.gif

1X1.gif

268 ms

top_menu_divider.png

top_menu_divider.png

269 ms

cww_logo.png

cww_logo.png

266 ms

search_bg.png

search_bg.png

268 ms

search_field_bg.png

search_field_bg.png

264 ms

btn_search_go.png

btn_search_go.png

482 ms

panel_bottom.png

panel_bottom.png

526 ms

panel_top.png

panel_top.png

527 ms

title_latest_news.png

title_latest_news.png

530 ms

menu_item_horiz_divider.png

menu_item_horiz_divider.png

532 ms

rss_btn.png

rss_btn.png

536 ms

slideshow_bg.png

slideshow_bg.png

744 ms

showcase_trp.jpg

showcase_trp.jpg

1055 ms

showcase_wet_wipes.jpg

showcase_wet_wipes.jpg

1051 ms

title_for_residents.png

title_for_residents.png

807 ms

panel_residents.png

panel_residents.png

1072 ms

title_for_devel.png

title_for_devel.png

809 ms

panel_devel.png

panel_devel.png

1007 ms

title_for_business.png

title_for_business.png

1073 ms

panel_business.png

panel_business.png

1077 ms

bpay_view_1.jpg

bpay_view_1.jpg

1534 ms

scan_and_pay.png

scan_and_pay.png

1315 ms

footer_menu_divider.png

footer_menu_divider.png

1316 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

collect

collect

71 ms

modules-1f5c71aea63f8df71401422ed80fbe5f.js

modules-1f5c71aea63f8df71401422ed80fbe5f.js

34 ms

visit-data

visit-data

225 ms

print.css

print.css

270 ms

Accessibility Review

citywestwater.com.au accessibility score

80

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

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

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

citywestwater.com.au best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

citywestwater.com.au SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Citywestwater.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 Citywestwater.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

citywestwater.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Citywest Water. 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: