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Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

sciencenewzealand.org

About us » Science New Zealand

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

825 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

362 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sciencenewzealand.org page load time and found that the first response time was 825 ms and then it took 3.8 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

sciencenewzealand.org performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.123

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sciencenewzealand.org

825 ms

base.css

218 ms

swfobject.js

401 ms

ga.js

51 ms

page-background.gif

216 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Sciencenewzealand.org, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Sciencenewzealand.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 61.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

260.0 kB

After Optimization

198.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sciencenewzealand.org main page is 260.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 184.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.9 kB

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 7.0 kB, which is 19% 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 28.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 184.7 kB
  • After minification 169.0 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. Science New Zealand images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 19.2 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 4.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 14.6 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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. Sciencenewzealand.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (24%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Science New Zealand. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sciencenewzealand.org

sciencenewzealand.org

825 ms

base.css

base.css

218 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

401 ms

ga.js

ga.js

51 ms

page-background.gif

page-background.gif

216 ms

sciencenz-new-logo.jpg

sciencenz-new-logo.jpg

401 ms

sciencenz-flash-replacement.jpg

sciencenz-flash-replacement.jpg

597 ms

top-navigation-bg.gif

top-navigation-bg.gif

401 ms

rss.gif

rss.gif

432 ms

content-shadow-full.png

content-shadow-full.png

431 ms

shadow-corner-left.gif

shadow-corner-left.gif

435 ms

shadow-corner-right.png

shadow-corner-right.png

599 ms

heading-bg.gif

heading-bg.gif

599 ms

heading-shadow.gif

heading-shadow.gif

643 ms

main-content-bg.gif

main-content-bg.gif

643 ms

heading-background-red.gif

heading-background-red.gif

648 ms

strip-background.jpg

strip-background.jpg

789 ms

heading-shadow-right.gif

heading-shadow-right.gif

795 ms

agresearch_logo.jpg

agresearch_logo.jpg

795 ms

Plant_Food_Research.jpg

Plant_Food_Research.jpg

855 ms

esr-small.png

esr-small.png

856 ms

gns.gif

gns.gif

862 ms

landcare-research.gif

landcare-research.gif

983 ms

niwa.gif

niwa.gif

992 ms

scion_logo.jpg

scion_logo.jpg

992 ms

callaghan.png

callaghan.png

1067 ms

cemars-logo.jpg

cemars-logo.jpg

1067 ms

biopolymer-logo.jpg

biopolymer-logo.jpg

1076 ms

carbonzero-logo.jpg

carbonzero-logo.jpg

1177 ms

grasslands-innovation-logo.jpg

grasslands-innovation-logo.jpg

1189 ms

enviro-mark-logo.jpg

enviro-mark-logo.jpg

1190 ms

mwpress-logo.jpg

mwpress-logo.jpg

1279 ms

grasslanz-logo.jpg

grasslanz-logo.jpg

1280 ms

ecogene-logo.jpg

ecogene-logo.jpg

1292 ms

isi-logo.jpg

isi-logo.jpg

1374 ms

phytagro-logo.jpg

phytagro-logo.jpg

1387 ms

nlrc-logo.jpg

nlrc-logo.jpg

1389 ms

encoate-logo.jpg

encoate-logo.jpg

1494 ms

varnz-logo.gif

varnz-logo.gif

1495 ms

bio-pacific-ventures-logo.jpg

bio-pacific-ventures-logo.jpg

1493 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

atlastech.jpg

atlastech.jpg

1373 ms

sluri-logo.jpg

sluri-logo.jpg

1203 ms

veritec.jpg

veritec.jpg

1205 ms

clone-logo.jpg

clone-logo.jpg

1293 ms

newfarmax-logo.jpg

newfarmax-logo.jpg

1508 ms

prevar-logo.gif

prevar-logo.gif

1307 ms

VISG-logo.jpg

VISG-logo.jpg

1191 ms

ebex-logo.jpg

ebex-logo.jpg

1206 ms

print.css

print.css

216 ms

Accessibility Review

sciencenewzealand.org accessibility score

82

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.

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

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

sciencenewzealand.org 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

sciencenewzealand.org SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sciencenewzealand.org 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 Sciencenewzealand.org 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

sciencenewzealand.org

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Science New Zealand. 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: