Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% 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

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

quitnow.gov.au

How to quit smoking and vaping | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Quitnow.gov.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 6.1 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

quitnow.gov.au performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,180 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.637

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

quitnow.gov.au

1801 ms

main.css

1174 ms

home.css

883 ms

jquery.js

1515 ms

dha.min.js

2593 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Quitnow.gov.au, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Health.gov.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Health.gov.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

860.2 kB

After Optimization

615.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Quitnow.gov.au main page is 860.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 541.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 2.2 kB, which is 11% 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 16.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 541.0 kB
  • After minification 513.3 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. Quit Now Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 168.9 kB

  • Original 259.8 kB
  • After minification 258.7 kB
  • After compression 90.9 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 168.9 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. Quitnow.gov.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Quit Now 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

quitnow.gov.au accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

quitnow.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

quitnow.gov.au SEO score

97

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Quitnow.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 Quitnow.gov.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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