Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

redmelon.co.nz

Educational Resources and Teaching Supplies | Creative Classrooms

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

486 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

335 ms

About Website

Visit redmelon.co.nz now to see the best up-to-date Redmelon content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about redmelon.co.nz

NZ's favourite shop for educational resources and school supplies. The very best in teaching resources, art and craft, stickers, educational games for primary school teachers and early education ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Redmelon.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 486 ms and then it took 3.8 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

redmelon.co.nz performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,260 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

redmelon.co.nz

486 ms

22 ms

1163 ms

309610b1b02710739070f5673c322b81.min.css

41 ms

styles-l.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Redmelon.co.nz, 54% (44 requests) were made to Creativeclassrooms.co.nz and 33% (27 requests) were made to Media.creativeclassrooms.co.nz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Creativeclassrooms.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 412.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Redmelon.co.nz main page is 1.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 221.8 kB

  • Original 255.5 kB
  • After minification 202.5 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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 53.0 kB, which is 21% 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 221.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Redmelon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 100 B

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 18.4 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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

-86%

Potential reduce by 159.2 kB

  • Original 186.2 kB
  • After minification 27.0 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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. Redmelon.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (15%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Redmelon. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

redmelon.co.nz accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

redmelon.co.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

redmelon.co.nz SEO score

92

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

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 Redmelon.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 Redmelon.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 Redmelon. 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: