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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

immigration.govt.nz

Immigration New Zealand

Page Load Speed

53.8 sec in total

First Response

917 ms

Resources Loaded

44.5 sec

Page Rendered

8.5 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Immigration content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about immigration.govt.nz

Welcome to the New Zealand Government’s official immigration website. Visit us to find out how to apply for a visa or NZeTA, employ migrant workers, and assist students and refugees. You can also find...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Immigration.govt.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 917 ms and then it took 52.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

immigration.govt.nz performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.457

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

immigration.govt.nz

917 ms

new-zealand-visas

671 ms

production.min.css

1598 ms

modernizr.custom.min.js

901 ms

inz.css

655 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Immigration.govt.nz, 13% (6 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Immigration.govt.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.6 kB (65%)

Content Size

366.0 kB

After Optimization

127.4 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Immigration.govt.nz main page is 366.0 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. 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. Javascripts take 259.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 94.9 kB

  • Original 106.4 kB
  • After minification 71.6 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.8 kB, which is 33% 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 94.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 143.7 kB

  • Original 259.6 kB
  • After minification 259.5 kB
  • After compression 115.9 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 143.7 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (56%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Immigration. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

immigration.govt.nz

immigration.govt.nz

917 ms

new-zealand-visas

new-zealand-visas

671 ms

production.min.css

production.min.css

1598 ms

modernizr.custom.min.js

modernizr.custom.min.js

901 ms

inz.css

inz.css

655 ms

site.src.js

site.src.js

1700 ms

inz.js

inz.js

461 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

1043 ms

production.min.1.css

production.min.1.css

776 ms

logo_print.svg

logo_print.svg

780 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

1050 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

3427 ms

homepage_smaller.jpg

homepage_smaller.jpg

3600 ms

Pipi%20picking%20at%20beach.jpg

Pipi%20picking%20at%20beach.jpg

4444 ms

HP_Image.jpg

HP_Image.jpg

4445 ms

Pipi%20picking%20at%20beach.jpg

Pipi%20picking%20at%20beach.jpg

4445 ms

mbie_logo.svg

mbie_logo.svg

3600 ms

nzgovt_logo.svg

nzgovt_logo.svg

3571 ms

Gustan-Medium.woff

Gustan-Medium.woff

9552 ms

Gustan-Extrabold.woff

Gustan-Extrabold.woff

9490 ms

glyphs.woff

glyphs.woff

8537 ms

FiraSans-Book.woff

FiraSans-Book.woff

9491 ms

FiraSans-Medium.woff

FiraSans-Medium.woff

9490 ms

9014 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1269 ms

print.css

print.css

573 ms

Gustan-Light.woff

Gustan-Light.woff

1121 ms

Gustan-LightItalic.woff

Gustan-LightItalic.woff

1023 ms

activityi;src=4490101;type=remar0;cat=inzsi0;ord=5545866046147;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.immigration.govt.nz%2Fnew-zealand-visas

activityi;src=4490101;type=remar0;cat=inzsi0;ord=5545866046147;~oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.immigration.govt.nz%2Fnew-zealand-visas

4589 ms

inspectlet.js

inspectlet.js

4589 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

750 ms

collect

collect

3526 ms

collect

collect

2016 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

1688 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

2318 ms

collect

collect

1623 ms

collect

collect

1629 ms

collect

collect

1686 ms

1999737412

1999737412

1490 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

1050 ms

540802689376624

540802689376624

651 ms

562 ms

339 ms

195 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

FiraSans-Regular.woff

FiraSans-Regular.woff

1001 ms

Accessibility Review

immigration.govt.nz accessibility score

79

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

immigration.govt.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

immigration.govt.nz SEO score

89

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Immigration.govt.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 Immigration.govt.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

immigration.govt.nz

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