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highered.gov.au

Higher Education | Department of Education and Training

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

975 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

288 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Highered.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 975 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

highered.gov.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.highered.gov.au

975 ms

modernizr.custom.js

235 ms

system.base.css

471 ms

system.menus.css

689 ms

system.messages.css

696 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Highered.gov.au, 24% (17 requests) were made to Publish.viostream.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Highered.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 805.3 kB (74%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

285.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Highered.gov.au main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 797.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 57.0 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 50.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 36.6 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, Higher Ed Gov needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 592.2 kB

  • Original 797.9 kB
  • After minification 582.4 kB
  • After compression 205.7 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 592.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 155.1 kB

  • Original 187.8 kB
  • After minification 140.8 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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. Highered.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 155.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (72%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Higher Ed 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 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

highered.gov.au SEO score

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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 Highered.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 Highered.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

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