Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

metromag.co.nz

Metro — Auckland's Dining, Arts & Lifestyle Magazine

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

591 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

979 ms

metromag.co.nz screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Metro Mag content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about metromag.co.nz

Metro is Auckland's authority on dining, art, society, schools and property. Metro is home to the definitive Top 50 lists of Cheap Eats, Bars, Restaurants and Wine.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metromag.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 591 ms and then it took 5.7 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

metromag.co.nz performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.079

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metromag.co.nz

591 ms

metromag.co.nz

801 ms

www.metromag.co.nz

1357 ms

gtm.js

55 ms

load-css

395 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Metromag.co.nz, 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Metromag.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.4 kB (30%)

Content Size

817.2 kB

After Optimization

572.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Metromag.co.nz main page is 817.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 464.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 238.7 kB

  • Original 279.2 kB
  • After minification 279.2 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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 238.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 464.3 kB
  • After minification 458.6 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. Metro Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 73.7 kB
  • After minification 73.7 kB
  • After compression 73.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (27%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metro Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

metromag.co.nz accessibility score

67

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.

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

metromag.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

metromag.co.nz SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Metromag.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 Metromag.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 Metro Mag. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: