Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 55% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

blogs.rch.org.au

Royal Children's Hospital

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.rch.org.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 5.7 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

blogs.rch.org.au performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.rch.org.au

2101 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

890 ms

ace-video-container.css

445 ms

main.min.css

2458 ms

mainColorschemes.min.css

2446 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.rch.org.au, 22% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 17% (7 requests) were made to Rch.org.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Blogs.rch.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.0 kB (69%)

Content Size

668.9 kB

After Optimization

209.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.rch.org.au main page is 668.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 420.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 16.3 kB

  • Original 22.2 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. 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 16.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 79.0 kB
  • After minification 75.7 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. Blogs Rch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 68.0 kB

  • Original 147.0 kB
  • After minification 143.2 kB
  • After compression 79.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 68.0 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 371.5 kB

  • Original 420.7 kB
  • After minification 416.7 kB
  • After compression 49.2 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. Blogs.rch.org.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 371.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (52%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs Rch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blogs.rch.org.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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

blogs.rch.org.au best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

blogs.rch.org.au SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blogs.rch.org.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 Blogs.rch.org.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 description is not detected on the main page of Blogs Rch. 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: