pac.edu.au website review

About 250 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 1.2 s faster on a phone.

Your mobile performance score is 57. Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.

6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Facebook and Adobe TypeKit and others), adding 702 KiB and 842 ms of main-thread time.

Google Tag Manager costs a phone 603 ms of main-thread work and 356 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

5 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 449 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

2 images could be 60 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen. Google estimates it would make the page about 300 ms faster on a phone.

1 file blocks the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining it could save about 350 ms.

4 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (188 KiB).

Polyfills for old browsers add 23 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need. Google estimates it would make the page about 150 ms faster on a phone.

Web fonts hide text while they load. Setting font-display: swap shows text immediately (about 50 ms).

About 11 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.

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

Your largest element takes 7.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “Prince Alfred College Main Building”.

The page becomes fully interactive after 7.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

Visually, the page fills in at 5.9 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

Scripts block taps and scrolling for 560 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

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

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 93 ms to 104 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-31, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 0.9 s to 0.9 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

1 image (35 KiB) is 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.

1 image further down the page (21 KiB) download before anyone scrolls to it. Adding loading="lazy" lets the first screen load first.

By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.29 g of CO₂e: 35.3 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

1 element hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

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

All page content should be contained by landmarks: 7 elements on the page fail this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

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

1 form field has no label, so screen readers announce an empty box and autofill guesses.

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

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

Your title is only 21 characters: “Prince Alfred College”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

The homepage links to 101 pages on pac.edu.au and 5 external pages.

Your Organization JSON-LD is missing sameAs (social profiles), description and contact details. These are the facts AI assistants use to describe a business and to tell it apart from others with a similar name.

There is no https://pac.edu.au/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.

Your homepage links to 1 page by a URL that isn't its canonical one, for example https://pac.edu.au/about/masterplan, whose canonical is https://pac.edu.au/master-plan. Linking straight to the canonical URL saves crawlers a detour and keeps ranking signals on one address.

https://pac.edu.au/about/our-people, https://pac.edu.au/about/masterplan, https://pac.edu.au/about/venue-hire, https://pac.edu.au/about/archives, https://pac.edu.au/about/sustainability and https://pac.edu.au/about/college-policies took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 81 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

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

Social proof on the homepage: 72 testimonial or review blocks. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.

The homepage shows no opening hours. If customers visit or call, show when.

There is no link to Google or Apple Maps. A directions link is one tap for a phone visitor.

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

The homepage carries about 793 words of visible text.

Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

Opening the homepage sets 4 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

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.

Loading the homepage contacts 10 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.