Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

times.co.nz

Times Online - News, Sports, Photos, Opinion, Art, Local, Community

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

393 ms

times.co.nz screenshot

About Website

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Times Online for news, sports, photos and community events throughout the Howick, Pakuranga, Botany, Ormiston and surrounding areas. Times Online is local.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Times.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 7.3 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

times.co.nz performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.times.co.nz

1426 ms

gen_validatorv31.js

220 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

625 ms

jquery-ui.css

406 ms

jquery-ui.js

1062 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (95 requests) were addressed to the original Times.co.nz, 3% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Secure-nz.imrworldwide.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Times.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 854.4 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

811.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Times.co.nz main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 843.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 52.4 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 65.7 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 52.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 618.0 kB
  • After minification 568.2 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. Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 642.3 kB

  • Original 843.7 kB
  • After minification 667.0 kB
  • After compression 201.3 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 642.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 109.9 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 106.0 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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. Times.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (45%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

times.co.nz accessibility score

78

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

times.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

times.co.nz SEO score

91

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Times.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 Times.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 description is not detected on the main page of Times. 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: