Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

business.govt.nz

Home — business.govt.nz

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

618 ms

Resources Loaded

9.3 sec

Page Rendered

363 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Business.govt.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 618 ms and then it took 9.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

business.govt.nz performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,970 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.441

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

business.govt.nz

618 ms

www.business.govt.nz

3346 ms

base-cachekey-cms-70511.css

762 ms

columns-cachekey-cms-70513.css

999 ms

resourcefmit.problemselector.stylesheetsproblemselector-cachekey-cms-70515.css

777 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (95 requests) were addressed to the original Business.govt.nz, 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Business.govt.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 487.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Business.govt.nz main page is 1.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 228.6 kB

  • Original 259.3 kB
  • After minification 168.8 kB
  • After compression 30.6 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 90.5 kB, which is 35% 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 228.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 188.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Obviously, Business needs image optimization as it can save up to 188.8 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 112.1 kB
  • After minification 112.0 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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 69.8 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (59%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

business.govt.nz accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

business.govt.nz best practices score

77

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

business.govt.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 Business.govt.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 Business.govt.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 Business. 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: