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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% 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

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

employment.gov.au

Department of Education, Skills and Employment

Page Load Speed

12.2 sec in total

First Response

3.1 sec

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

374 ms

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About Website

Welcome to employment.gov.au homepage info - get ready to check Employment Gov best content right away, or after learning these important things about employment.gov.au

The Department of Education, Skills and Employment works to ensure Australians can experience the wellbeing and economic benefits that quality education, skills and employment provide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Employment.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 3.1 sec and then it took 9.1 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

employment.gov.au performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.229

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Employment.gov.au, 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Employment.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.5 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

786.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Employment.gov.au main page is 1.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 726.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 26.0 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 20.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 726.1 kB
  • After minification 695.9 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. Employment Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 102.1 kB

  • Original 164.0 kB
  • After minification 140.3 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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 102.1 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 67.7 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 87.3 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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. Employment.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 67.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (59%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Employment 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

employment.gov.au accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

employment.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

employment.gov.au SEO score

99

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

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 Employment.gov.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 Employment.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

employment.gov.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Employment 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: