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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    33% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

press.co.nz

The Press: Christchurch and Canterbury news | Stuff.co.nz

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

515 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

636 ms

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About Website

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

Breaking news, opinion and analysis from Christchurch, Canterbury, the West Coast and throughout the South Island.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Press.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 515 ms and then it took 4.6 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

press.co.nz performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

press.co.nz

515 ms

1005 ms

stuff-plugins.min.js

83 ms

gpt.js

85 ms

socialize.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Press.co.nz, 45% (64 requests) were made to Stuff.co.nz and 4% (6 requests) were made to Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Neighbourly.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 574.8 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

550.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Press.co.nz main page is 1.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 638.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 117.2 kB

  • Original 139.8 kB
  • After minification 98.7 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 41.2 kB, which is 29% 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 117.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.2 kB

  • Original 283.6 kB
  • After minification 265.4 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. Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 390.5 kB

  • Original 638.8 kB
  • After minification 626.8 kB
  • After compression 248.3 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 390.5 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 48.8 kB

  • Original 62.6 kB
  • After minification 50.1 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. Press.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 48.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (53%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

press.co.nz accessibility score

81

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

press.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

press.co.nz SEO score

93

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

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 Press.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 Press.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

press.co.nz

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Press. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: