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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

hrc.govt.nz

Health research saves lives | Health Research Council of New Zealand

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

719 ms

About Website

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The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) is a Crown agency of the New Zealand Government. It is responsible for managing the government's investment in health research for the public good...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hrc.govt.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hrc.govt.nz performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hrc.govt.nz

1072 ms

google_tag.script.js

217 ms

css_bw8tc4crL3i6YwVbpjN2HRP2u6dezAtKAaYPul3Or_E.css

436 ms

css_6ETLFpuuo1s1BBv54ZB6uX2SEa_yVdCgr6mvyERKkLA.css

642 ms

css_J3Yc1Yls-9mWTng0pTbwube7GGummjwigY_lWizFaaI.css

434 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Hrc.govt.nz, 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Player.vimeo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Hrc.govt.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 161.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

915.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hrc.govt.nz main page is 1.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 924.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 45.8 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.0 kB, which is 16% 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 45.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

  • Original 924.9 kB
  • After minification 809.7 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. Obviously, Hrc needs image optimization as it can save up to 115.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 47.3 kB
  • After minification 47.3 kB
  • After compression 47.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 699 B

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 48.3 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. Hrc.govt.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (42%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hrc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hrc.govt.nz accessibility score

87

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

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

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

hrc.govt.nz best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hrc.govt.nz SEO score

99

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

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 Hrc.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 Hrc.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

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