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vrc.net.au

Flemington | Victoria Racing Club | Melbourne Cup Carnival

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

497 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

251 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vrc.net.au page load time and found that the first response time was 497 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vrc.net.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

vrc.net.au

497 ms

www.flemington.com.au

1084 ms

utilities.8D8E7480DCB70E694566E8E62A75A7E0.min.css

1406 ms

global.02073DC061E2527C7B124B9F0E78489D.min.css

1800 ms

main.627CF0400D01510FD4E52D4810FBED5C.min.css

1824 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Vrc.net.au, 37% (33 requests) were made to Cdn.racing.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Assetscdn.stackla.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.racing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (65%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Vrc.net.au main page is 3.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 135.3 kB
  • After minification 116.6 kB
  • After compression 36.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.7 kB, which is 14% 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 98.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 29.4 kB

  • Original 340.0 kB
  • After minification 310.6 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. Vrc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 827.0 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 1.5 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 853.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 156.9 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. Vrc.net.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 853.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (54%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vrc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

vrc.net.au SEO score

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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 Vrc.net.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 Vrc.net.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

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