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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 65

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

macquariedictionary.com.au

Home | Explore the Word Map & Daily Vocabulary | Macquarie Dictionary

Page Load Speed

13.2 sec in total

First Response

539 ms

Resources Loaded

12.1 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macquariedictionary.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 539 ms and then it took 12.6 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

macquariedictionary.com.au performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macquariedictionary.com.au

539 ms

www.macquariedictionary.com.au

2980 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1033 ms

lemon_slider.css

705 ms

app.css

948 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Macquariedictionary.com.au, 12% (10 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.2 sec) relates to the external source Media-macquarie-wspdigitalproduction-com.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 777.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Macquariedictionary.com.au main page is 4.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 65.3 kB
  • After compression 15.2 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 20.1 kB, which is 24% 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 70.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 176.8 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Macquarie Dictionary images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 364.1 kB

  • Original 527.3 kB
  • After minification 488.9 kB
  • After compression 163.2 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 364.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 166.8 kB

  • Original 199.2 kB
  • After minification 172.8 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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. Macquariedictionary.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 166.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (56%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Macquarie Dictionary. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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macquariedictionary.com.au

539 ms

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2980 ms

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Accessibility Review

macquariedictionary.com.au accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

macquariedictionary.com.au best practices score

77

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

macquariedictionary.com.au SEO score

65

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use 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 Macquariedictionary.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 Macquariedictionary.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

macquariedictionary.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Macquarie Dictionary. 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: