Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

nzcity.co.nz

NZCity Personal Start Page

Page Load Speed

28.9 sec in total

First Response

601 ms

Resources Loaded

28.1 sec

Page Rendered

195 ms

nzcity.co.nz screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nzcity.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 601 ms and then it took 28.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% 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

nzcity.co.nz performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.345

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nzcity.co.nz

601 ms

home.nzcity.co.nz

594 ms

home.nzcity.co.nz

1373 ms

nzcity_1-11268953.css

2021 ms

nzcity_news-9267129.css

2025 ms

Our browser made a total of 130 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nzcity.co.nz, 49% (64 requests) were made to Home.nzcity.co.nz and 8% (11 requests) were made to S.tribalfusion.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.1 sec) relates to the external source Public-prod-dspcookiematching.dmxleo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 78.5 kB (9%)

Content Size

830.9 kB

After Optimization

752.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Nzcity.co.nz main page is 830.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 572.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 77.3 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 57.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 134.4 kB
  • After minification 128.2 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. NZCity images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 572.7 kB
  • After minification 571.5 kB
  • After compression 560.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 45.3 kB
  • After minification 44.7 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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. Nzcity.co.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (66%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NZCity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nzcity.co.nz accessibility score

78

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

nzcity.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nzcity.co.nz SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nzcity.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 Nzcity.co.nz main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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