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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

higgins.co.nz

Home | Higgins

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

992 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

397 ms

higgins.co.nz screenshot

About Website

Welcome to higgins.co.nz homepage info - get ready to check Higgins best content for New Zealand right away, or after learning these important things about higgins.co.nz

Higgins is a dynamic and trusted New Zealand civil construction business. Our purpose is to make places better for generations to come. With a 1600-strong team, we have broad capabilities and resource...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Higgins.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 992 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

higgins.co.nz performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value21,230 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.higgins.co.nz

992 ms

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220 ms

modernizr.js

454 ms

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1065 ms

64a3c2c8640cc26678f06f95895ebbc34a7e06b7.1534301406.js

1248 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Higgins.co.nz, 16% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Static.searchiq.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Higgins.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 505.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Higgins.co.nz main page is 6.9 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. 85% 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. Images take 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 56.3 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 16.3 kB, which is 29% 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 47.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 6.3 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. Higgins images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 95.0 kB
  • After compression 70.4 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 24.6 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 316.4 kB

  • Original 393.4 kB
  • After minification 393.2 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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. Higgins.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 316.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (33%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Higgins. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.higgins.co.nz

www.higgins.co.nz

992 ms

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b132c0260b28d752d6e9703a831503aab2c5f8e9.1547783003.css

220 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

454 ms

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053974f406eed2d21f1fe0fff773b5e5aaeea9dd.1603236324.js

1065 ms

64a3c2c8640cc26678f06f95895ebbc34a7e06b7.1534301406.js

64a3c2c8640cc26678f06f95895ebbc34a7e06b7.1534301406.js

1248 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

600 ms

siq-container-2.js

siq-container-2.js

748 ms

hotjar-1207794.js

hotjar-1207794.js

684 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

556 ms

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580 ms

search.png

search.png

668 ms

hdr.png

hdr.png

664 ms

Higgins.png

Higgins.png

663 ms

H-shield_w.png

H-shield_w.png

776 ms

Higgins_w.png

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980 ms

social-yt.png

social-yt.png

980 ms

social-li.png

social-li.png

979 ms

social-fb.png

social-fb.png

997 ms

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2391 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

2391 ms

H-shield.png

H-shield.png

2383 ms

DJI_0695.jpg

DJI_0695.jpg

2386 ms

SH4_Combo_for_web_2.jpg

SH4_Combo_for_web_2.jpg

2596 ms

Whakatu_Main_image_Oct19.jpg

Whakatu_Main_image_Oct19.jpg

2594 ms

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2570 ms

People_small_Aucklandperson.png

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2733 ms

Website_image_Watchman_Rd_aerial_view_of_roundabout_to_port.jpg

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2732 ms

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2970 ms

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2765 ms

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2969 ms

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2975 ms

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2976 ms

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2973 ms

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2976 ms

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3022 ms

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2990 ms

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3129 ms

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3130 ms

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2865 ms

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2891 ms

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2891 ms

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152 ms

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70 ms

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www-player.css

21 ms

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www-embed-player.js

20 ms

base.js

base.js

19 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

20 ms

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200 ms

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2761 ms

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179 ms

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1902 ms

settings.js

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1901 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

227 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

377 ms

base.js

base.js

457 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

224 ms

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visit-data

1810 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

731 ms

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576 ms

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198 ms

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153 ms

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sa.js

388 ms

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autocomplete.js

392 ms

live

live

390 ms

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255 ms

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257 ms

Create

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247 ms

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63 ms

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64 ms

GenerateIT

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

higgins.co.nz accessibility score

68

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

higgins.co.nz best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

higgins.co.nz SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Higgins.co.nz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Higgins.co.nz 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

higgins.co.nz

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