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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 7 November 202639 issues · 88 checks

This review found 39 issues worth fixing on 101loans.com.au, 18 of them high impact, across 88 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of 101loans.com.au (phone) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. 101loans.com.au at 0.8 s0.8 s
  2. 101loans.com.au at 1.7 s1.7 s
  3. 101loans.com.au at 2.5 s2.5 s
  4. 101loans.com.au at 3.3 s3.3 s
  5. 101loans.com.au at 4.1 s4.1 s
  6. 101loans.com.au at 5.0 s5.0 s
  7. 101loans.com.au at 5.8 s5.8 s
  8. 101loans.com.au at 6.6 s6.6 s

101loans.com.au does not allow embedding, so this is Google's rendering of the page.

Speed

8 to fix55
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.5 s · 5.9 MB

    75 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (5.9 MB).

  • Render-blocking requests

    2.8 s

    25 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 2.8 s.

  • Improve image delivery

    1.5 s · 884 KiB

    34 images could be 884 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.5 s faster on a phone.

  • Font display

    1.4 s

    Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 1.4 s).

  • Mobile performance score: 55

    55/100

    Your mobile performance score is 55. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    450 ms · 87 KiB

    About 87 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    300 ms · 114 KiB

    About 114 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    300 ms · 15 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 15 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

  • 1 long task on the main thread

    1 long task block the main thread while loading, the longest for 84 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • 3 third-party services on the page

    3 third-party services load with your homepage (FontAwesome CDN, Cloudflare CDN and Google Fonts), adding 252 KiB and 43 ms of main-thread time.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

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  • Main-thread work: 1.6 s

    A phone's processor spends 1.6 s on main-thread work while loading, 583 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 5 ms

    5 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 5 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix54
  • Largest Contentful Paint: 11.0 s

    11.0 s

    Your largest element takes 11.0 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the element shown below.

  • Time to Interactive: 11.3 s

    11.3 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 11.3 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 8.1 s

    8.1 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 8.1 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.197

    0.197

    The layout shifts by 0.197 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • 1 image without width and height

    1 image have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

  • Not enough real-visitor data yet

    Chrome's UX Report (opens in a new tab) has too little real-visitor traffic for this site, so the figures here are lab measurements from Google's test phone on a throttled 4G connection.

1 checks passed
  • Total Blocking Time: 34 ms

    34 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 34 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 7.9 MB in 97 requests

    7.9 MB

    Your homepage downloads 7.9 MB in 97 requests on a phone: media 5.6 MB (2), images 1.5 MB (37) and scripts 336 KiB (18). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 3 images in older formats

    3 images (100 KiB) are JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • About 2.2 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.23 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.23 g of CO₂e: 267.7 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

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  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

6 to fixGoogle 8490
  • ARIA toggle fields must have an accessible name (2 elements)

    ARIA toggle fields must have an accessible name: 2 elements on the page fail this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • ARIA tab nodes must have an accessible name (1 element)

    ARIA tab nodes must have an accessible name: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 1 image without alt text

    1 image has no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • 4 links without text

    4 visible links have no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where they go.

  • Headings skip levels

    Headings skip levels (h2 → h4), which makes the page harder to scan with a screen reader.

1 checks passed
  • 45 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 52 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 45 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 5444
  • Page is set to noindex

    The robots meta tag says “noindex, nofollow”: Google is told not to list this page at all.

  • No meta description

    No meta description, so Google writes its own snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Blocked from indexing

    Google's crawler is blocked from indexing this page.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • No social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 25 internal links, 4 external

    The homepage links to 25 pages on 101loans.com.au and 4 external pages.

4 checks passed
  • Title: 36 characters

    Your title is a healthy 36 characters: “101 Loans – Making It Easier For You”.

  • Canonical URL set

    The canonical URL is https://www.101loans.com.au/.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.101loans.com.au/wp-sitemap.xml.

AI search readiness

2 to fix63
  • Most text only appears after JavaScript runs

    19%

    A phone browser shows 575 words, but the HTML your server sends has only 111. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read that HTML without running JavaScript, so they see an almost empty page. Server-side rendering or pre-rendering fixes it.

  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no /llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

1 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

Other pages

3 to fix83
  • 15 linked pages hidden from search

    /about-us, /meet-our-team, /services, /home-loans, /mortgage-refinance and /personal-loans and 9 others are marked noindex but linked from your homepage. If they are meant to be found, remove the noindex.

  • 15 pages without a meta description

    /about-us, /meet-our-team, /services, /home-loans, /mortgage-refinance and /personal-loans and 9 others have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 4 pages without an H1

    /meet-our-team, /services, /calculators and /contact-us have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.

4 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • Every page has a title

    All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

2 to fixGoogle 9687
  • 8 small tap targets

    8 of 12 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • 1 JavaScript error while loading

    1 error was logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED”.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Security and trust

1 to fix94
  • No Content-Security-Policy

    No Content-Security-Policy header, the main browser-side defence against injected scripts.

  • No Permissions-Policy

    No Permissions-Policy header to switch off camera, microphone and location for embedded content.

  • No security.txt

    There is no /.well-known/security.txt telling researchers how to report a security problem to you.

7 checks passed
  • Served over HTTPS

    The homepage is served over HTTPS (101loans.com.au).

  • Valid certificate (60 days left)

    The certificate from Let's Encrypt · YE2 verifies for 101loans.com.au and is valid for another 60 days.

  • Protected from clickjacking

    X-Frame-Options or a frame-ancestors policy stops other sites framing yours.

  • HSTS enabled

    Strict-Transport-Security is set, so browsers always use https.

  • http:// redirects to https

    http://101loans.com.au redirects to the secure version.

  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    The server speaks HTTP/2 and advertises HTTP/3, so browsers load many files over one connection.

  • All 20 links work

    All 20 links checked from your homepage (16 internal, 4 external) answered without errors.

Domain and trust

  • No CAA record

    101loans.com.au has no CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue a certificate for it. A CAA record naming your provider (for example letsencrypt.org) closes that door.

Content and conversion

3 to fix60
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • Thin social proof

    Social proof on the homepage: 2 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

  • About 575 words of copy

    The homepage carries about 575 words of visible text.

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  • 3 calls to action

    The homepage has 3 calls to action, for example “Contact Us”.

  • Direct contact links

    Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.

Email authentication

1 to fix70
  • DMARC is monitor-only (p=none)

    DMARC is set to p=none, so mail pretending to be 101loans.com.au is still delivered. Reports are on, so moving to quarantine is the next step.

  • Email authentication score: 70/100

    Email authentication: SPF record 25 points, plus 15 when it ends in -all (10 for ~all); DMARC record 25, plus 25 for a reject policy (15 for quarantine); a DKIM key on a common selector 10.

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  • SPF in place (~all)

    An SPF record lists your sending servers and marks other mail as suspicious (~all): “v=spf1 include:_spf.smtp.com include:_spf.google.com ~all”.

  • DKIM signing found

    A DKIM key is published (selector “google”), so receivers can verify mail really came from you.

Privacy and tracking

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 5 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 5 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Upkeep, stack and company

No signs of neglect in what was checked: the copyright year, CMS and plugin versions, and jQuery.

Stack

CMS
WordPress
Hosting
Host Universal Pty Ltd

Hiring

Hiring
1 open role
Job board
careers page

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