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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

expol.co.nz

EXPOL - Premium Insulation Solutions | New Zealand's Trusted Leader

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

113 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

506 ms

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About Website

Welcome to expol.co.nz homepage info - get ready to check EXPOL best content for New Zealand right away, or after learning these important things about expol.co.nz

EXPOL has been New Zealand's trusted leader in premium polystyrene insulation for over 40 years. Discover our sustainable, BRANZ-tested solutions for better building performance.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expol.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 113 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expol.co.nz performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,490 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expol.co.nz

113 ms

www.expol.co.nz

1259 ms

js_composer.min.css

36 ms

styles.css

95 ms

jquery.datetimepicker.min.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Expol.co.nz, 11% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Expol.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Expol.co.nz main page is 4.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 136.6 kB

  • Original 165.9 kB
  • After minification 163.0 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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 136.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 71.2 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. EXPOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 972.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 33.3 kB

  • Original 329.5 kB
  • After minification 329.4 kB
  • After compression 296.1 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. Expol.co.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (68%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EXPOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

expol.co.nz

expol.co.nz

113 ms

www.expol.co.nz

www.expol.co.nz

1259 ms

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36 ms

styles.css

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95 ms

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81 ms

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87 ms

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82 ms

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95 ms

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98 ms

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100 ms

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101 ms

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129 ms

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128 ms

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117 ms

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114 ms

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128 ms

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127 ms

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142 ms

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185 ms

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329 ms

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198 ms

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163 ms

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498 ms

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499 ms

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498 ms

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296 ms

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295 ms

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191 ms

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226 ms

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224 ms

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224 ms

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212 ms

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757 ms

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390 ms

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389 ms

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609 ms

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151 ms

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606 ms

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253 ms

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523 ms

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1699 ms

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2176 ms

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1649 ms

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1654 ms

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2316 ms

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1651 ms

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1691 ms

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1690 ms

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1693 ms

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2008 ms

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2005 ms

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2008 ms

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2009 ms

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2163 ms

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2675 ms

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2885 ms

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2497 ms

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3054 ms

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2399 ms

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2368 ms

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334 ms

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2564 ms

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154 ms

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262 ms

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205 ms

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238 ms

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385 ms

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276 ms

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152 ms

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476 ms

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196 ms

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794 ms

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451 ms

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272 ms

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225 ms

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261 ms

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256 ms

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1205 ms

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50 ms

Create

Create

319 ms

Create

Create

472 ms

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www-widgetapi.js

127 ms

GenerateIT

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19 ms

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GenerateIT

22 ms

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4 ms

Accessibility Review

expol.co.nz accessibility score

81

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

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

expol.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

expol.co.nz SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Expol.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 Expol.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

expol.co.nz

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