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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

startupnews.com.au

Startup News | WA's Most Trusted Source Of News In Startups

Page Load Speed

13.1 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

10.1 sec

Page Rendered

446 ms

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About Website

Welcome to startupnews.com.au homepage info - get ready to check Startup News best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about startupnews.com.au

The home of startup news in Western Australia since 2013. We publish news, interviews, advice, podcasts and events relating to WA startups.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startupnews.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Startupnews.com.au rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

startupnews.com.au performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,460 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.startupnews.com.au

2610 ms

style.css

855 ms

www.startupnews.com.au

886 ms

styles.css

444 ms

colorbox.css

445 ms

Our browser made a total of 137 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (126 requests) were addressed to the original Startupnews.com.au, 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Startupnews.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 644.0 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Startupnews.com.au main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 178.0 kB

  • Original 195.4 kB
  • After minification 166.6 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 28.8 kB, which is 15% 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 178.0 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Startup News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 216.5 kB

  • Original 328.8 kB
  • After minification 307.7 kB
  • After compression 112.3 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 216.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 176.8 kB

  • Original 211.0 kB
  • After minification 179.1 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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. Startupnews.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 176.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (40%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

79

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Startup News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

startupnews.com.au accessibility score

82

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.

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

<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

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

startupnews.com.au best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

startupnews.com.au SEO score

91

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

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 Startupnews.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 Startupnews.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

startupnews.com.au

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Startup News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: