Tools & Wizards About Us
listeningpost.co.nz screenshot

Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

listeningpost.co.nz

The Listening Post Christchurch and Wellington | Hi Fi | Home Theatre | Custom Install

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

listeningpost.co.nz screenshot

About Website

Visit listeningpost.co.nz now to see the best up-to-date Listening Post content for New Zealand and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about listeningpost.co.nz

The Listening Post Christchurch and Wellington are specialist retailers of HiFi and Home Theatre systems. Our clear focus is on good quality, easy-to-use products for sale in store and online. TLPCHC,...

Visit listeningpost.co.nz

Key Findings

We analyzed Listeningpost.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 6.1 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

listeningpost.co.nz performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.listeningpost.co.nz

1641 ms

211konstruk.css

1770 ms

9217konstruk.js

2613 ms

6colorbox1.css

1776 ms

D0E1F93F-E098-BF87-2EABEFA4260DE8F3_947.css

2521 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Listeningpost.co.nz, 43% (9 requests) were made to Assets2.listeningpost.co.nz and 24% (5 requests) were made to Assets1.listeningpost.co.nz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Assets2.listeningpost.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 245.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

771.2 kB

After Optimization

525.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Listeningpost.co.nz main page is 771.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 490.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 25.6 kB

  • Original 32.8 kB
  • After minification 32.8 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 25.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 50.9 kB

  • Original 490.3 kB
  • After minification 439.5 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. Listening Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 138.8 kB

  • Original 210.2 kB
  • After minification 210.2 kB
  • After compression 71.4 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 138.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 37.8 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. Listeningpost.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (16%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Listening Post. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

www.listeningpost.co.nz

www.listeningpost.co.nz

1641 ms

211konstruk.css

211konstruk.css

1770 ms

9217konstruk.js

9217konstruk.js

2613 ms

6colorbox1.css

6colorbox1.css

1776 ms

D0E1F93F-E098-BF87-2EABEFA4260DE8F3_947.css

D0E1F93F-E098-BF87-2EABEFA4260DE8F3_947.css

2521 ms

10ImageFader.js

10ImageFader.js

1924 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

TopHeaderTop.png

TopHeaderTop.png

646 ms

the_listening_post_staff_87828_5.jpg

the_listening_post_staff_87828_5.jpg

1231 ms

the_listening_post_staff_78605_3.jpg

the_listening_post_staff_78605_3.jpg

1358 ms

TopHeaderBottom.png

TopHeaderBottom.png

832 ms

unnamed-(1)_103641_1.jpg

unnamed-(1)_103641_1.jpg

1078 ms

TopHeaderRepeat.png

TopHeaderRepeat.png

401 ms

navBackground.png

navBackground.png

791 ms

collect

collect

27 ms

collect

collect

77 ms

prum.min.js

prum.min.js

29 ms

overlay.png

overlay.png

409 ms

ui.totop.png

ui.totop.png

1230 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

42 ms

Accessibility Review

listeningpost.co.nz accessibility score

95

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.

Best Practices

listeningpost.co.nz best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

listeningpost.co.nz SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Listeningpost.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 Listeningpost.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

listeningpost.co.nz

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Listening Post. 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: