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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

local.com.au

Local - Australian Business Directory

Page Load Speed

11.3 sec in total

First Response

507 ms

Resources Loaded

9.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

local.com.au screenshot

About Website

Visit local.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Local content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about local.com.au

For over a decade, Local has been your source of trusted businesses. Find the right expert for your job on Local's directory when you browse by category, business name or suburb.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Local.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 507 ms and then it took 10.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

local.com.au performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,880 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

local.com.au

507 ms

www.local.com.au

1318 ms

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2713 ms

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1070 ms

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1028 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Local.com.au, 71% (48 requests) were made to S3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com and 24% (16 requests) were made to Local-production.s3.amazonaws.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) relates to the external source S3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 367.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Local.com.au main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 29.7 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 3.3 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 24.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 93.2 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Local images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 101.8 kB

  • Original 171.0 kB
  • After minification 171.0 kB
  • After compression 69.3 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 101.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 148.2 kB

  • Original 173.0 kB
  • After minification 144.3 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. Local.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 148.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

58

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Local. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

local.com.au

local.com.au

507 ms

www.local.com.au

www.local.com.au

1318 ms

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2713 ms

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1070 ms

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1028 ms

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2548 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

113 ms

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accountant.jpg

1986 ms

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281 ms

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731 ms

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air-conditioning.jpg

1739 ms

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1708 ms

antenna.jpg

antenna.jpg

1715 ms

architect.jpg

architect.jpg

1988 ms

bricklaying.jpg

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1719 ms

building.jpg

building.jpg

2208 ms

car-mechanic-services.jpg

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2238 ms

cabinet-makers.jpg

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2257 ms

catering.jpg

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2471 ms

chiropractor.jpg

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2454 ms

cleaner.jpg

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2492 ms

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2714 ms

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2733 ms

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2750 ms

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3231 ms

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2981 ms

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2998 ms

electrician.jpg

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3213 ms

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3011 ms

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3245 ms

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3482 ms

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3584 ms

handyman.jpg

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3497 ms

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3712 ms

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3733 ms

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3758 ms

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3990 ms

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3996 ms

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4097 ms

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3971 ms

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4001 ms

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4040 ms

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4226 ms

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4272 ms

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4252 ms

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244 ms

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1240 ms

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463 ms

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485 ms

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1216 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

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501 ms

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391 ms

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243 ms

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344 ms

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559 ms

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2601 ms

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pools-and-spa.jpg

2844 ms

printing.jpg

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2655 ms

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real-estate-agent.jpg

2749 ms

removalists.jpg

removalists.jpg

2866 ms

kitchen-renovations.jpg

kitchen-renovations.jpg

2567 ms

roofing.jpg

roofing.jpg

2360 ms

rubbish-removal.jpg

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2460 ms

signwriting.jpg

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2731 ms

towing.jpg

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2364 ms

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2356 ms

weddings.jpg

weddings.jpg

2361 ms

Accessibility Review

local.com.au accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

local.com.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

local.com.au SEO score

92

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Local.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 Local.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

local.com.au

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