Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

employers.co.nz

Employers Assistance Ltd - Employment Law Support for Employers since 1995 - New Zealand

Page Load Speed

31.6 sec in total

First Response

593 ms

Resources Loaded

30.9 sec

Page Rendered

161 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Employers.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 593 ms and then it took 31 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

employers.co.nz performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

employers.co.nz

593 ms

www.employers.co.nz

3592 ms

www.employers.co.nz

1853 ms

raleway.css

470 ms

font-awesome.css

1352 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Employers.co.nz, 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Analytics.avanser.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Support.employers.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 196.1 kB (57%)

Content Size

342.8 kB

After Optimization

146.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Employers.co.nz main page is 342.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 169.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 51.4 kB
  • After minification 48.8 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 38.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 57.7 kB
  • After minification 56.1 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. Employers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 103.8 kB

  • Original 169.9 kB
  • After minification 162.5 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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 103.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 52.0 kB

  • Original 63.9 kB
  • After minification 45.3 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. Employers.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 52.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (72%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Employers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

employers.co.nz accessibility score

80

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

employers.co.nz best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

employers.co.nz SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Employers.co.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 Employers.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 Employers. 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: