Tools & Wizards About Us
skout.com.au screenshot

Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

skout.com.au

Skout Office Supplies - Delivering across Australia

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

127 ms

skout.com.au screenshot

About Website

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

Skout is a Brisbane based Office Supplies Firm, delivering stationery and other supplies across Australia

Visit skout.com.au

Key Findings

We analyzed Skout.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skout.com.au performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,140 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skout.com.au

69 ms

skout.com.au

997 ms

css

71 ms

bootstrap.min.css

24 ms

font-awesome.min.css

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Skout.com.au, 30% (21 requests) were made to D2ziwvbt4zs5az.cloudfront.net and 19% (13 requests) were made to D4tiodejie9u2.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source D2ziwvbt4zs5az.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

780.1 kB

After Optimization

713.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skout.com.au main page is 780.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 400.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 22.1 kB

  • Original 29.9 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 22.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 400.5 kB
  • After minification 389.3 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. Skout images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 302.0 kB
  • After minification 301.9 kB
  • After compression 268.3 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 33.7 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 73 B

  • Original 47.7 kB
  • After minification 47.7 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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. Skout.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (57%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skout. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

skout.com.au

skout.com.au

69 ms

skout.com.au

skout.com.au

997 ms

css

css

71 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

24 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

58 ms

style.css

style.css

898 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

57 ms

portfolio.css

portfolio.css

60 ms

ns-default.css

ns-default.css

59 ms

ns-style-growl.css

ns-style-growl.css

60 ms

bootstrapValidator.min.css

bootstrapValidator.min.css

75 ms

jquery.bootgrid.min.css

jquery.bootgrid.min.css

82 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

76 ms

layersliderstyle.css

layersliderstyle.css

73 ms

skin.css

skin.css

74 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

76 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

74 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

978 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

1027 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

79 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

89 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

69 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

79 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

75 ms

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

87 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

970 ms

notificationFx.js

notificationFx.js

95 ms

classie.js

classie.js

88 ms

bootstrapValidator.min.js

bootstrapValidator.min.js

89 ms

custom.js

custom.js

90 ms

greensock.js

greensock.js

92 ms

layerslider.transitions.js

layerslider.transitions.js

1087 ms

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

94 ms

platform.js

platform.js

64 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

90 ms

60001020.jpg

60001020.jpg

371 ms

80006440.jpg

80006440.jpg

496 ms

80002525.jpg

80002525.jpg

656 ms

90000030.jpg

90000030.jpg

688 ms

500010851.jpg

500010851.jpg

658 ms

490014942.jpg

490014942.jpg

654 ms

42001504.jpg

42001504.jpg

682 ms

420010801.jpg

420010801.jpg

778 ms

320011112.jpg

320011112.jpg

926 ms

20300313.jpg

20300313.jpg

935 ms

50005101.jpg

50005101.jpg

926 ms

70001211.jpg

70001211.jpg

944 ms

490080011.jpg

490080011.jpg

946 ms

logo.png

logo.png

45 ms

nab_sml.jpg

nab_sml.jpg

901 ms

gotop.png

gotop.png

897 ms

banner1.jpg

banner1.jpg

40 ms

skout_new.jpg

skout_new.jpg

40 ms

banner2.jpg

banner2.jpg

44 ms

banner3.jpg

banner3.jpg

44 ms

o-0mIpQlx3QUlC5A4PNB6Ryti20_6n1iPHjcz6L1SoM-jCpoiyD9A-9a6Vc.ttf

o-0mIpQlx3QUlC5A4PNB6Ryti20_6n1iPHjcz6L1SoM-jCpoiyD9A-9a6Vc.ttf

26 ms

o-0mIpQlx3QUlC5A4PNB6Ryti20_6n1iPHjcz6L1SoM-jCpoiyAaBO9a6Vc.ttf

o-0mIpQlx3QUlC5A4PNB6Ryti20_6n1iPHjcz6L1SoM-jCpoiyAaBO9a6Vc.ttf

35 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

17 ms

js

js

58 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

203 ms

bat.js

bat.js

204 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

154 ms

103 ms

main.js

main.js

76 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

collect

collect

71 ms

badge

badge

148 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

19 ms

21 ms

no_rating.png

no_rating.png

14 ms

Accessibility Review

skout.com.au accessibility score

56

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

High

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

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

skout.com.au best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

skout.com.au SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Skout.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 Skout.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

skout.com.au

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