Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thecommute.co

The Commute • Melbourne Brand, Digital Marketing And Content Agency

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

630 ms

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

thecommute.co screenshot

About Website

Welcome to thecommute.co homepage info - get ready to check The Commute best content right away, or after learning these important things about thecommute.co

Brand, content, video and website packages. The Commute is a pocket-sized agency, donating a portion of all sales to community organisations.

Visit thecommute.co

Key Findings

We analyzed Thecommute.co page load time and found that the first response time was 630 ms and then it took 11 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecommute.co performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,960 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecommute.co

630 ms

thecommute.co

2984 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

417 ms

style.min.css

630 ms

be281ccfbfc0ccfc651bbd3afdfd71ab.min.css

1537 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (133 requests) were addressed to the original Thecommute.co, 3% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecommute.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (15%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Thecommute.co main page is 6.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 289.0 kB

  • Original 332.8 kB
  • After minification 330.0 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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 289.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 575.4 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. The Commute images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 143.1 kB

  • Original 472.3 kB
  • After minification 472.3 kB
  • After compression 329.2 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 143.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 209.8 kB
  • After minification 209.8 kB
  • After compression 207.1 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. Thecommute.co has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (58%)

Requests Now

152

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 152 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Commute. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 77 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thecommute.co accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

thecommute.co 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

SEO Factors

thecommute.co SEO score

99

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 Thecommute.co 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 Thecommute.co 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 The Commute. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: