Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

kennards.com.au

Kennards Hire - Hire or Rent Equipment, Tools & Supplies

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

171 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kennards.com.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

kennards.com.au performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,850 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

index.php

1817 ms

kennards_ns.css

1116 ms

top_menu.css

925 ms

conversion.js

18 ms

fbds.js

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Kennards.com.au, 6% (5 requests) were made to I.po.st and 4% (3 requests) were made to Rs.gwallet.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Kennards.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.3 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

885.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Kennards.com.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 780.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 87.9 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 104.9 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 87.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 780.7 kB
  • After minification 764.2 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. Kennards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 123.7 kB

  • Original 208.5 kB
  • After minification 208.5 kB
  • After compression 84.8 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 123.7 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 121.1 kB

  • Original 136.2 kB
  • After minification 123.1 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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. Kennards.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (62%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kennards. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kennards.com.au accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

kennards.com.au best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kennards.com.au SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kennards.com.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 Kennards.com.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 Kennards. 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: