Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 69

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

mn.catholic.edu.au

CSO Home - Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

298 ms

mn.catholic.edu.au screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Mn Catholic content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mn.catholic.edu.au

The Catholic Schools Office (CSO), is responsible for the leadership, efficient operation and management of 44 Primary schools and 12 Secondary schools in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mn.catholic.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 6.5 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

mn.catholic.edu.au performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mn.catholic.edu.au

1443 ms

normalise.css

759 ms

style.css

1067 ms

hover_menu.css

510 ms

fontawesome.css

776 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Mn.catholic.edu.au, 7% (4 requests) were made to Mnnews.today and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Mn.catholic.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Mn.catholic.edu.au main page is 1.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 70.0 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 73.7 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.8 kB, which is 12% 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 70.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Mn Catholic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 114.5 kB

  • Original 167.3 kB
  • After minification 133.9 kB
  • After compression 52.8 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 114.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 76.5 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 68.1 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Mn.catholic.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 76.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (18%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mn Catholic. 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.

Accessibility Review

mn.catholic.edu.au accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mn.catholic.edu.au best practices score

69

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mn.catholic.edu.au SEO score

86

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mn.catholic.edu.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 Mn.catholic.edu.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mn Catholic. 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: