Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

587 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theinformant.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 587 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theinformant.co.nz performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.302

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theinformant.co.nz

587 ms

www.theinformant.co.nz

1047 ms

styles.css

1154 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

773 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

1195 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Theinformant.co.nz, 29% (11 requests) were made to Images.theinformant.co.nz and 24% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Images.theinformant.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 621.0 kB (68%)

Content Size

914.0 kB

After Optimization

293.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Theinformant.co.nz main page is 914.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 395.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 25.0 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 20.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 112.3 kB
  • After minification 112.3 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. Theinformant images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 248.1 kB

  • Original 379.3 kB
  • After minification 378.9 kB
  • After compression 131.2 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 248.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 352.9 kB

  • Original 395.4 kB
  • After minification 246.5 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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. Theinformant.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 352.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (24%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theinformant. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theinformant.co.nz accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

theinformant.co.nz best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

theinformant.co.nz SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Theinformant.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 Theinformant.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 Theinformant. 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: