Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

hbtoday.co.nz

Hawke's Bay Today: Latest Local News, Events & Updates - NZ Herald

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

417 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

123 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hbtoday.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 417 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 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hbtoday.co.nz performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hbtoday.co.nz

417 ms

www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz

193 ms

headlines.cfm

649 ms

1297 ms

nzme.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hbtoday.co.nz, 43% (27 requests) were made to Nzherald.co.nz and 8% (5 requests) were made to Cdn-gl.imrworldwide.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Nzherald.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 989.5 kB (77%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

291.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Hbtoday.co.nz main page is 1.3 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. HTML takes 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 966.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 122.6 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. 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 966.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 189.8 kB
  • After minification 189.8 kB
  • After compression 166.7 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 23.0 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 386 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Hbtoday.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 386 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (74%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hb Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hbtoday.co.nz accessibility score

80

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

hbtoday.co.nz best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hbtoday.co.nz SEO score

83

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

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 Hbtoday.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 Hbtoday.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 Hb Today. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: