Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weightwatchers.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 9.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weightwatchers.co.nz performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.483

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nz

51 ms

6106 ms

css_ins5Th8h_wXutJW3hrbMtjcOWxAuSENaW194JrZkPJE.css

366 ms

css_GJzfLmMIhrzaYD5LtN1ZAT1ssEgz88ih63aCphif9ik.css

372 ms

css_P8HvkWgjlL-giNRCYtjLypubSQ8eb63oLZq8Z9WSrCI.css

348 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Weightwatchers.co.nz, 11% (5 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Dpm.demdex.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.1 sec) relates to the external source Weightwatchers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.4 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Weightwatchers.co.nz main page is 1.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 63.5 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 77.2 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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 63.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 57.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Weightwatchers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 160.0 kB

  • Original 249.7 kB
  • After minification 244.5 kB
  • After compression 89.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 160.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 207.5 kB

  • Original 248.0 kB
  • After minification 242.0 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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. Weightwatchers.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 207.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (58%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weightwatchers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

weightwatchers.co.nz accessibility score

86

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

Best Practices

weightwatchers.co.nz best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

weightwatchers.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 Weightwatchers.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 Weightwatchers.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 description is not detected on the main page of Weightwatchers. 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: