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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% 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

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

info.dfat.gov.au

Historical documents | Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

239 ms

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About Website

Visit info.dfat.gov.au now to see the best up-to-date Info Dfat Gov content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about info.dfat.gov.au

Thousands of pages of key historical documents (also published as Documents on Australian Foreign Policy).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Info.dfat.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 6.2 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

info.dfat.gov.au performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,130 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.605

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

historical-documents.aspx

1896 ms

common.css

619 ms

desktop.css

412 ms

dfatweb.css

416 ms

mobile.css

416 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Info.dfat.gov.au, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Dfat.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 970.7 kB (65%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

514.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Info.dfat.gov.au main page is 1.5 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 827.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 211.2 kB

  • Original 261.1 kB
  • After minification 230.6 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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 30.5 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 211.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 70.6 kB

  • Original 258.2 kB
  • After minification 187.6 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, Info Dfat Gov needs image optimization as it can save up to 70.6 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 571.2 kB

  • Original 827.5 kB
  • After minification 792.4 kB
  • After compression 256.2 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 571.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 138.2 kB
  • After minification 108.7 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Info.dfat.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (43%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Info Dfat 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 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

historical-documents.aspx

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1896 ms

common.css

common.css

619 ms

desktop.css

desktop.css

412 ms

dfatweb.css

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416 ms

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416 ms

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414 ms

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33 ms

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612 ms

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625 ms

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626 ms

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627 ms

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626 ms

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616 ms

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11 ms

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418 ms

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421 ms

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424 ms

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23 ms

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13 ms

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419 ms

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398 ms

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Accessibility Review

info.dfat.gov.au accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

info.dfat.gov.au best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Uses deprecated APIs

SEO Factors

info.dfat.gov.au SEO score

80

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Info.dfat.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 Info.dfat.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

info.dfat.gov.au

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