Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

laddercentral.com.au

Ladder Central - Platform Ladders | Step Ladders | Extension Ladders | Aluminium and Fibreglass | Online Shop

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

642 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

469 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laddercentral.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 642 ms 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

laddercentral.com.au performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.0 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

laddercentral.com.au

642 ms

laddercentral.com.au

859 ms

www.laddercentral.com.au

2151 ms

js

67 ms

gtm.js

155 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Laddercentral.com.au, 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Laddercentral.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 872.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Laddercentral.com.au main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 148.6 kB

  • Original 167.1 kB
  • After minification 128.9 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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 38.2 kB, which is 23% 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 148.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 723.5 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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, Ladder Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 723.5 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 59 B

  • Original 255.1 kB
  • After minification 255.1 kB
  • After compression 255.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 88.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (12%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ladder Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

laddercentral.com.au accessibility score

83

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

laddercentral.com.au best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

laddercentral.com.au SEO score

90

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 Laddercentral.com.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 Laddercentral.com.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 data is detected on the main page of Ladder Central. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: