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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

metromagazine.com.au

Australia’s oldest film and media periodical. Since 1964. – Metro Magazine

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

883 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

173 ms

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About Website

Visit metromagazine.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Metro Magazine content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about metromagazine.com.au

Metro Magazine embraces the tradition of the essay, immersing the reader in well-informed, analytical and thought-provoking discussion.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metromagazine.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 883 ms and then it took 5.4 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

metromagazine.com.au performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metromagazine.com.au

883 ms

index.html

822 ms

styles-new.css

271 ms

prototype.js

1305 ms

scriptaculous.js

528 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Metromagazine.com.au, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Metromagazine.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 277.1 kB (29%)

Content Size

967.0 kB

After Optimization

689.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metromagazine.com.au main page is 967.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 631.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 10.3 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 2.1 kB, which is 17% 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 9.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 631.5 kB
  • After minification 612.8 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. Metro Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 242.6 kB

  • Original 315.4 kB
  • After minification 231.4 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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 242.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 7.8 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. Metromagazine.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (20%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metro Magazine. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

metromagazine.com.au

metromagazine.com.au

883 ms

index.html

index.html

822 ms

styles-new.css

styles-new.css

271 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

1305 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

528 ms

effects.js

effects.js

789 ms

header-slideshow.js

header-slideshow.js

527 ms

builder.js

builder.js

265 ms

dragdrop.js

dragdrop.js

271 ms

controls.js

controls.js

288 ms

slider.js

slider.js

269 ms

sound.js

sound.js

273 ms

bg_wrapper.jpg

bg_wrapper.jpg

265 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

272 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

271 ms

mh-1.jpg

mh-1.jpg

271 ms

mh-2.jpg

mh-2.jpg

526 ms

mh-3.jpg

mh-3.jpg

789 ms

mh-4.jpg

mh-4.jpg

806 ms

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mh-5.jpg

534 ms

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mh-6.jpg

535 ms

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mh-7.jpg

534 ms

mh-8.jpg

mh-8.jpg

790 ms

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mh-9.jpg

798 ms

mh-10.jpg

mh-10.jpg

803 ms

mh-11.jpg

mh-11.jpg

802 ms

bg_row1.jpg

bg_row1.jpg

1048 ms

bg_row2.jpg

bg_row2.jpg

1053 ms

bg_row3.jpg

bg_row3.jpg

1061 ms

bg_contents_home.jpg

bg_contents_home.jpg

1066 ms

metromag_logo.png

metromag_logo.png

1066 ms

atom_logo.png

atom_logo.png

1072 ms

screened_logo.png

screened_logo.png

1311 ms

shop1.jpg

shop1.jpg

1317 ms

home-link-bg.png

home-link-bg.png

1325 ms

screening9.jpg

screening9.jpg

1327 ms

bureau10.jpg

bureau10.jpg

1332 ms

guide5.jpg

guide5.jpg

1341 ms

ATOM-Photo-Comp-2017-banner-ad-for-web-420x100.png

ATOM-Photo-Comp-2017-banner-ad-for-web-420x100.png

1579 ms

The-Education-Shop-web-banner-ad-420x100px.png

The-Education-Shop-web-banner-ad-420x100px.png

1589 ms

rentthisspace_banner.gif

rentthisspace_banner.gif

1588 ms

M193-Cover.jpg

M193-Cover.jpg

1605 ms

SE86cover.jpg

SE86cover.jpg

1607 ms

monkey's_mask_web_button.jpg

monkey's_mask_web_button.jpg

1611 ms

atom-mailing-list.jpg

atom-mailing-list.jpg

1849 ms

bg_tile_footer.jpg

bg_tile_footer.jpg

1852 ms

ga.js

ga.js

4 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

metromagazine.com.au accessibility score

73

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

metromagazine.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

metromagazine.com.au SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 uses legible font sizes

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 Metromagazine.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 Metromagazine.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

metromagazine.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Metro Magazine. 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: