Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 50

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

vicrock.com.au

Rock and Roll Australia - VicRock

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

674 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

vicrock.com.au screenshot

About Website

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

50s rock and roll music and dancing news, including rockabilly, country rock, bands, gig guide, dance schools, clubs and forums – Victoria Australia

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vicrock.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 674 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vicrock.com.au performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.759

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vicrock.com.au

674 ms

vicrock.com.au

1107 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

215 ms

connection-min.js

430 ms

vbulletin-core.js

853 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Vicrock.com.au, 8% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Aportelli.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.1 kB (3%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Vicrock.com.au main page is 4.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 77.8 kB

  • Original 96.4 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 77.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Vic Rock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 456.1 kB
  • After minification 456.1 kB
  • After compression 448.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 20.7 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. Vicrock.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (48%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vic Rock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vicrock.com.au accessibility score

50

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

vicrock.com.au best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

vicrock.com.au SEO score

46

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vicrock.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Vicrock.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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