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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

invest.directshares.com.au

Directshares | Online Share Trading | St.George Bank

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

850 ms

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

433 ms

invest.directshares.com.au screenshot

About Website

Visit invest.directshares.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Inve St Directshares content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about invest.directshares.com.au

Invest in Australian and International shares, options, ETFs, managed funds and more with Directshares.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Invest.directshares.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 850 ms and then it took 8.1 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

invest.directshares.com.au performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,260 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

directshares-online-broking

850 ms

style-core.min.css

8 ms

head.min.js

417 ms

launch-ENf39dbd00902a4dd986283c3044374487.min.js

1234 ms

iframe_api.js

838 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Invest.directshares.com.au, 8% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Lpcdn.lpsnmedia.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Stgeorge.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Invest.directshares.com.au main page is 1.7 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 956.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 113.1 kB

  • Original 147.2 kB
  • After minification 129.0 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 18.2 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 113.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 190.9 kB
  • After minification 187.5 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. Inve St Directshares images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 41.8 kB

  • Original 956.2 kB
  • After minification 956.2 kB
  • After compression 914.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 106 B

  • Original 372.8 kB
  • After minification 372.8 kB
  • After compression 372.6 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. Invest.directshares.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (71%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Inve St Directshares. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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directshares-online-broking

850 ms

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8 ms

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417 ms

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1234 ms

iframe_api.js

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838 ms

iframeVideo.js

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827 ms

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825 ms

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1749 ms

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619 ms

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88 ms

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143 ms

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108 ms

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231 ms

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www-widgetapi.js

106 ms

bg-left.png

bg-left.png

911 ms

bg-right.png

bg-right.png

226 ms

stg-Directshare-app.png

stg-Directshare-app.png

873 ms

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590 ms

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874 ms

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1093 ms

search-funnelback.js

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831 ms

safety-button.js

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1379 ms

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862 ms

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913 ms

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164 ms

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95 ms

sticky-nav.js

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1633 ms

matchHeight.js

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1609 ms

how-what-why.js

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1041 ms

slick.js

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1171 ms

multiple-video.js

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1171 ms

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1172 ms

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1222 ms

analytics_stg.min.js

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1301 ms

json

json

94 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

29 ms

www-embed-player.js

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64 ms

base.js

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105 ms

ad_status.js

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376 ms

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256 ms

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101 ms

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81 ms

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84 ms

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64 ms

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148 ms

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20 ms

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209 ms

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17 ms

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27 ms

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117 ms

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Accessibility Review

invest.directshares.com.au accessibility score

85

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.

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

invest.directshares.com.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

invest.directshares.com.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

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

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 Invest.directshares.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 Invest.directshares.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

invest.directshares.com.au

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Inve St Directshares. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: