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thegordon.edu.au

Full-time and part-time Gordon TAFE courses

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

241 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thegordon.edu.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thegordon.edu.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

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1573 ms

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962 ms

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1173 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Thegordon.edu.au, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Web-call-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thegordon.edu.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 379.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thegordon.edu.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 930.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 47.5 kB

  • Original 64.3 kB
  • After minification 60.2 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 47.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 48.4 kB

  • Original 930.8 kB
  • After minification 882.3 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. The Gordon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 188.1 kB

  • Original 277.3 kB
  • After minification 271.0 kB
  • After compression 89.2 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 188.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 95.2 kB

  • Original 110.6 kB
  • After minification 109.9 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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. Thegordon.edu.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (34%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Gordon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

thegordon.edu.au SEO score

0

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 Thegordon.edu.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 Thegordon.edu.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

thegordon.edu.au

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