Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

skytv.co.nz

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Page Load Speed

61.3 sec in total

First Response

745 ms

Resources Loaded

50.3 sec

Page Rendered

10.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skytv.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 745 ms and then it took 60.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 5 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

skytv.co.nz performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,320 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.skytv.co.nz

745 ms

www.sky.co.nz

2880 ms

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6234 ms

j.php

941 ms

site.min.css

1122 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Skytv.co.nz, 47% (30 requests) were made to Skynz.akamaized.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.1 sec) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 MB (39%)

Content Size

8.8 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Skytv.co.nz main page is 8.8 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. 75% 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 207.3 kB

  • Original 234.0 kB
  • After minification 175.2 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 58.8 kB, which is 25% 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 207.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 146.0 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Skytv images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB
  • After compression 824.0 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 1.9 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 224.4 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. Skytv.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (17%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skytv. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

skytv.co.nz accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

skytv.co.nz best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

skytv.co.nz SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skytv.co.nz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Skytv.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 Skytv. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: