Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

itbrief.co.nz

IT Brief New Zealand - Technology news for CIOs & IT decision-makers

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

957 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itbrief.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itbrief.co.nz performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itbrief.co.nz

1524 ms

techday.min.8d9bff4e136d.css

810 ms

font-awesome.min.css

52 ms

jquery.min.js

59 ms

jquery.min.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Itbrief.co.nz, 9% (8 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Itbrief.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 650.3 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

983.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Itbrief.co.nz main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 757.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 94.3 kB

  • Original 113.1 kB
  • After minification 68.5 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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 44.6 kB, which is 39% 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 94.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 757.0 kB
  • After minification 741.8 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. IT Brief images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 273.4 kB

  • Original 444.9 kB
  • After minification 443.5 kB
  • After compression 171.5 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 273.4 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 267.4 kB

  • Original 319.3 kB
  • After minification 319.0 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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. Itbrief.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (39%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IT Brief. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

itbrief.co.nz accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

itbrief.co.nz best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

itbrief.co.nz SEO score

100

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

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 Itbrief.co.nz 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 Itbrief.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

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