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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    61% of websites

waitomocaves.co.nz

Waitomo Glowworm Caves NZ | Black Water Rafting | Discover Waitomo

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

484 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

520 ms

waitomocaves.co.nz screenshot

About Website

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

Discover Waitomo home of New Zealand's world-famous tourist attractions. Waitomo Glowworm caves, Black Water Rafting. Online deals and packages, book now.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waitomocaves.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 484 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waitomocaves.co.nz performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.667

8/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.waitomo.com

484 ms

opentag-97168-1171169.js

47 ms

j.php

7 ms

j.php

7 ms

corev15.css

418 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Waitomocaves.co.nz, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Waitomo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (30%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

4.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waitomocaves.co.nz main page is 6.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 113.7 kB
  • After minification 73.0 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 40.7 kB, which is 36% 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 98.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 183.0 kB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.0 MB

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. Waitomo Caves images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 989.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 449.4 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 989.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 659.6 kB

  • Original 772.4 kB
  • After minification 652.8 kB
  • After compression 112.9 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. Waitomocaves.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 659.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (46%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

60

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waitomo Caves. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.waitomo.com

www.waitomo.com

484 ms

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opentag-97168-1171169.js

47 ms

j.php

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7 ms

j.php

j.php

7 ms

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418 ms

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222 ms

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23 ms

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149 ms

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flexslider.css

150 ms

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custom.css

374 ms

topmenu.css

topmenu.css

226 ms

homepageScroller.css

homepageScroller.css

270 ms

init.js

init.js

513 ms

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376 ms

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342 ms

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3 ms

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2 ms

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354 ms

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382 ms

WebResource.axd

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384 ms

homepageImages.css

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328 ms

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24 ms

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357 ms

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357 ms

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430 ms

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431 ms

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431 ms

slidebars.min.js

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483 ms

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483 ms

custom-home.js

custom-home.js

486 ms

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88 ms

lang-chinese.png

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87 ms

discover_waitomo_logo.png

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93 ms

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202 ms

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201 ms

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210 ms

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258 ms

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259 ms

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257 ms

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412 ms

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414 ms

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411 ms

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413 ms

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414 ms

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470 ms

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469 ms

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473 ms

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472 ms

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536 ms

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473 ms

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188 ms

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517 ms

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516 ms

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523 ms

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78 ms

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78 ms

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520 ms

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468 ms

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613 ms

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534 ms

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62 ms

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441 ms

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509 ms

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63 ms

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80 ms

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110 ms

deal_logo.png

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504 ms

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504 ms

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504 ms

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500 ms

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561 ms

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91 ms

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63 ms

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520 ms

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521 ms

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236 ms

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92 ms

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96 ms

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56 ms

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805 ms

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77 ms

Accessibility Review

waitomocaves.co.nz accessibility score

84

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

waitomocaves.co.nz best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

waitomocaves.co.nz SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Waitomocaves.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 Waitomocaves.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

waitomocaves.co.nz

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Waitomo Caves. 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: