Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    78% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

nznews.net.nz

New Zealand (Aotearoa) News

Page Load Speed

939 ms in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

606 ms

Page Rendered

82 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nznews.net.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 688 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nznews.net.nz performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nznews.net.nz

251 ms

analytics.js

4 ms

show_ads.js

27 ms

brand

61 ms

collect

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nznews.net.nz, 25% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 25% (4 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (251 ms) belongs to the original domain Nznews.net.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.5 kB (58%)

Content Size

367.4 kB

After Optimization

156.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Nznews.net.nz main page is 367.4 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. Javascripts take 357.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 9.1 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 6.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 551 B
  • After minification 551 B

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. Nz News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 204.9 kB

  • Original 357.8 kB
  • After minification 357.2 kB
  • After compression 152.9 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 204.9 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (43%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nz News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nznews.net.nz accessibility score

62

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

nznews.net.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

nznews.net.nz SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Nznews.net.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 Nznews.net.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 Nz News. 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: