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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

dss.gov.au

Department of Social Services | Department of Social Services, Australian Government

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

734 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dss.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 734 ms and then it took 7.1 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

dss.gov.au performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dss.gov.au

734 ms

www.dss.gov.au

2043 ms

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265 ms

css_PB2TlPUH6xNMTL_2BiksOKe0Nivlv0tSV1oIt_ROvsY.css

532 ms

js_UWQINlriydSoeSiGQxToOUdv493zEa7dpsXC1OtYlZU.js

972 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Dss.gov.au, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Dss.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 841.6 kB (68%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

391.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dss.gov.au main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 885.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 28.6 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 21.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 251.6 kB
  • After minification 207.0 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. Obviously, Dss Gov needs image optimization as it can save up to 44.6 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 721.1 kB

  • Original 885.2 kB
  • After minification 557.6 kB
  • After compression 164.1 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 721.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 54.6 kB

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. Dss.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (37%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

29

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dss Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dss.gov.au

dss.gov.au

734 ms

www.dss.gov.au

www.dss.gov.au

2043 ms

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css_tYMfGUORsJoW06CG9nknEzlp8TZfDgSFgXPKc2Lilhw.css

265 ms

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css_PB2TlPUH6xNMTL_2BiksOKe0Nivlv0tSV1oIt_ROvsY.css

532 ms

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972 ms

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725 ms

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792 ms

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1509 ms

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798 ms

ReadSpeaker.js

ReadSpeaker.js

780 ms

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js_vy2nFkILJ_NrtwcBj5dV1vN50QmshPyvkdhhqXcIuBc.js

1234 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

54 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

collect

collect

51 ms

header_bkg.png

header_bkg.png

493 ms

logo.png

logo.png

484 ms

search-but.png

search-but.png

245 ms

nav_bkg.png

nav_bkg.png

246 ms

nav-resp1.jpg

nav-resp1.jpg

246 ms

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nav-resp2.jpg

246 ms

nav-resp3.jpg

nav-resp3.jpg

488 ms

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486 ms

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nav-resp5.jpg

483 ms

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nav-resp6.jpg

488 ms

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nav-resp7.jpg

722 ms

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youtube_icon.png

726 ms

rss_icon.png

rss_icon.png

724 ms

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766 ms

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1002 ms

carer_and_son.jpg

carer_and_son.jpg

768 ms

dex_dss_homepage.jpg

dex_dss_homepage.jpg

985 ms

filmstrip-off.gif

filmstrip-off.gif

962 ms

promo_serviceproviders.gif

promo_serviceproviders.gif

971 ms

promo_engage.gif

promo_engage.gif

1010 ms

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1017 ms

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greyzone_hd.jpg

1215 ms

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greyzone_fro.jpg

1456 ms

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greyzone_idpwd.jpg

1466 ms

greyzone_ica.jpg

greyzone_ica.jpg

1244 ms

ReadSpeaker.Styles.css

ReadSpeaker.Styles.css

1217 ms

ReadSpeaker.Core.js

ReadSpeaker.Core.js

1279 ms

ReadSpeaker.pub.Config.js

ReadSpeaker.pub.Config.js

1669 ms

filmstrip-on.png

filmstrip-on.png

245 ms

ReadSpeaker.lib.Facade.adapter.jquery.js

ReadSpeaker.lib.Facade.adapter.jquery.js

248 ms

ReadSpeaker.Common.Settings.js

ReadSpeaker.Common.Settings.js

250 ms

ReadSpeaker.PlayerAPI.js

ReadSpeaker.PlayerAPI.js

246 ms

ReadSpeaker.HL.js

ReadSpeaker.HL.js

248 ms

ReadSpeaker.ui.js

ReadSpeaker.ui.js

254 ms

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262 ms

Accessibility Review

dss.gov.au accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

dss.gov.au best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

dss.gov.au SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Dss.gov.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 Dss.gov.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

dss.gov.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dss Gov. 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: