Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

seek.com.au

SEEK - Australia's no. 1 jobs, employment, career and recruitment site

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

423 ms

Resources Loaded

897 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

seek.com.au screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Seek.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 423 ms and then it took 897 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

seek.com.au performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

seek.com.au

423 ms

www.seek.com.au

363 ms

vendor.braid-1cfe0272b701eac02fbf.css

43 ms

app-36e20273e44b084aaca0.css

36 ms

runtime~main-9c65482611d01e2a3a3c.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Seek.com.au, 7% (1 request) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Cdn.raygun.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (423 ms) belongs to the original domain Seek.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Seek.com.au main page is 1.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 179.6 kB

  • Original 207.8 kB
  • After minification 207.4 kB
  • After compression 28.3 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 179.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-2%

Potential reduce by 308 B

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 18.3 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. Seek.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (77%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SEEK. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

seek.com.au accessibility score

92

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

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

Best Practices

seek.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

seek.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Seek.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 Seek.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 SEEK. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: