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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

acu.nz

Unity | Credit Union | Kiwis Doing Money, Together | Home Loans

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

579 ms

acu.nz screenshot

About Website

Visit acu.nz now to see the best up-to-date Acu content for New Zealand and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about acu.nz

Unity offers low-interest (from 9.9%*) personal finance & debt consolidation loans, home loans, term deposits, savings & everyday accounts. ​Apply online today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acu.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

acu.nz performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.289

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unitymoney.co.nz

1539 ms

full.css

1738 ms

layout.js

1599 ms

Unity-BAU-website-carousel-1200x576-V1-01.jpg

111 ms

Unity_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Black_89x28.png

248 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Acu.nz, 38% (11 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Unitymoney.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

606.6 kB

After Optimization

551.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Acu.nz main page is 606.6 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. Images take 359.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 43.5 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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 19.2 kB, which is 31% 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 53.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 359.5 kB
  • After minification 358.3 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. Acu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 63.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 105 B

  • Original 120.6 kB
  • After minification 120.6 kB
  • After compression 120.5 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. Acu.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (26%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

unitymoney.co.nz

unitymoney.co.nz

1539 ms

full.css

full.css

1738 ms

layout.js

layout.js

1599 ms

Unity-BAU-website-carousel-1200x576-V1-01.jpg

Unity-BAU-website-carousel-1200x576-V1-01.jpg

111 ms

Unity_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Black_89x28.png

Unity_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Black_89x28.png

248 ms

searchIconMobile.png

searchIconMobile.png

249 ms

searchIcon.png

searchIcon.png

497 ms

Unity_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Black_131x41.png

Unity_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Black_131x41.png

492 ms

LockIcon.png

LockIcon.png

756 ms

collective-logo.svg

collective-logo.svg

789 ms

facebook_white.svg

facebook_white.svg

789 ms

twitter_white.svg

twitter_white.svg

795 ms

linkedin_white.svg

linkedin_white.svg

737 ms

NZCUUNITY-ESinclair-9664.jpg

NZCUUNITY-ESinclair-9664.jpg

95 ms

NZCUUNITY-ESinclair-0043.jpg

NZCUUNITY-ESinclair-0043.jpg

113 ms

Banking-needs-home-loan-image.jpg

Banking-needs-home-loan-image.jpg

138 ms

Homepage-2-370x255.jpg

Homepage-2-370x255.jpg

115 ms

Homepage-370x255.jpg

Homepage-370x255.jpg

136 ms

deviceImageUpdate.png

deviceImageUpdate.png

129 ms

Unity-Website-helpful-hints-image.jpg

Unity-Website-helpful-hints-image.jpg

138 ms

branchFinderUpdated.png

branchFinderUpdated.png

146 ms

Home-page-gogetter.jpg

Home-page-gogetter.jpg

146 ms

ZXTYPE6C3FC6AF6FJPRRTSKUIM-5.png

ZXTYPE6C3FC6AF6FJPRRTSKUIM-5.png

164 ms

Calibre.woff

Calibre.woff

736 ms

Calibre-Light.woff

Calibre-Light.woff

973 ms

Calibre-SemiBold.woff

Calibre-SemiBold.woff

1190 ms

Calibre-Bold.woff

Calibre-Bold.woff

1021 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

73 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

acu.nz accessibility score

63

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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.

Best Practices

acu.nz best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

acu.nz SEO score

83

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

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 Acu.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 Acu.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

acu.nz

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