Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

iaa.govt.nz

New Zealand Immigration Advisers Authority | IAA

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

869 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iaa.govt.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 869 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iaa.govt.nz performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.593

11/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iaa.govt.nz

869 ms

styles.css

387 ms

jquery.js

811 ms

functions.js

389 ms

easySlider1.7.js

392 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Iaa.govt.nz, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Iaa.govt.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 222.1 kB (28%)

Content Size

797.6 kB

After Optimization

575.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Iaa.govt.nz main page is 797.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 642.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 13.6 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 2.1 kB, which is 13% 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 12.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 116.7 kB

  • Original 642.3 kB
  • After minification 525.6 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. Obviously, IAA needs image optimization as it can save up to 116.7 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 117.6 kB
  • After minification 114.5 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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 75.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. Iaa.govt.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (12%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IAA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

iaa.govt.nz accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

iaa.govt.nz best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

iaa.govt.nz SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iaa.govt.nz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Iaa.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 IAA. 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: