Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

watershop.com.au

Home - The Water Shop - Water Filter Systems, Whole House Filtration, Reverse Osmosis, Alkaline Water

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

777 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

406 ms

watershop.com.au screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Watershop.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 777 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

watershop.com.au performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,530 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

watershop.com.au

777 ms

s.css

465 ms

jquery-1.6.2.min.js

696 ms

hashgrid.js

476 ms

reset.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Watershop.com.au, 23% (24 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 17% (18 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Watershop.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.3 kB (22%)

Content Size

994.5 kB

After Optimization

776.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Watershop.com.au main page is 994.5 kB. 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 690.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 33.3 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. 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 26.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 690.6 kB
  • After minification 651.0 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. Water Shop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 99.6 kB

  • Original 205.9 kB
  • After minification 201.0 kB
  • After compression 106.3 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 99.6 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 53.0 kB

  • Original 64.4 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. Watershop.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 53.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (38%)

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water Shop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

watershop.com.au accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

watershop.com.au SEO score

92

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 Watershop.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 Watershop.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Water Shop. 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: