Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

franchisedirect.com.au

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Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

615 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Franchisedirect.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 4.5 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

franchisedirect.com.au performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

franchisedirect.com.au

187 ms

www.franchisedirect.com.au

40 ms

css2

58 ms

3a55385e84.js

78 ms

All.min.8aa9b61e35b79f329692ac8ef74edffe.gz.css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Franchisedirect.com.au, 59% (44 requests) were made to Static4.franchisedirect.ie and 8% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Static4.franchisedirect.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 401.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Franchisedirect.com.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. 75% 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 775.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 356.4 kB

  • Original 403.3 kB
  • After minification 342.0 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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 61.3 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 356.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 41.7 kB

  • Original 775.0 kB
  • After minification 733.3 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. Franchisedirect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 431.0 kB
  • After minification 431.0 kB
  • After compression 428.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 160.6 kB
  • After minification 160.6 kB
  • After compression 159.4 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. Franchisedirect.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (38%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Franchisedirect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

franchisedirect.com.au accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

franchisedirect.com.au best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

franchisedirect.com.au SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Franchisedirect.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 Franchisedirect.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 Franchisedirect. 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: