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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

backpackerbus.co.nz

Backpacker Bus New Zealand - Cheap bus travel, New Zealand Bus Pass info

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

10 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Backpackerbus.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 10 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

backpackerbus.co.nz performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.169

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.1 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

backpackerbus.co.nz

10 ms

index.html

22 ms

coa4wiy.js

65 ms

js

69 ms

style.min.css

831 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Backpackerbus.co.nz, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Backpackerbus.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

917.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Backpackerbus.co.nz main page is 1.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 835.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 65.2 kB
  • After minification 62.6 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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 53.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 835.1 kB
  • After minification 821.6 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. Backpacker Bus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 71.6 kB
  • After compression 51.6 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 20.2 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 36.5 kB
  • After minification 36.5 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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. Backpackerbus.co.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (38%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Backpacker Bus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

backpackerbus.co.nz

backpackerbus.co.nz

10 ms

index.html

index.html

22 ms

coa4wiy.js

coa4wiy.js

65 ms

js

js

69 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

831 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

837 ms

style.css

style.css

846 ms

css

css

40 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

16 ms

frontend-gtag.js

frontend-gtag.js

14 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

22 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

24 ms

paperback.js

paperback.js

21 ms

headroom.js

headroom.js

915 ms

jQuery.headroom.js

jQuery.headroom.js

27 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

30 ms

jquery.matchHeight.js

jquery.matchHeight.js

31 ms

responsiveslides.js

responsiveslides.js

35 ms

jquery.touchSwipe.js

jquery.touchSwipe.js

37 ms

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d5d30dab9647d975b34cb674e3c0669b

56 ms

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Backpacker-bus-logo_180.jpg

44 ms

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SkipBus_backpacker-65x65.jpg

44 ms

SkipBus_backpacker-1300x793.jpg

SkipBus_backpacker-1300x793.jpg

45 ms

SkipBus_backpacker-50x50.jpg

SkipBus_backpacker-50x50.jpg

885 ms

SkipBus_151118-50x50.jpg

SkipBus_151118-50x50.jpg

51 ms

southislandbusfeatured-50x50.jpg

southislandbusfeatured-50x50.jpg

883 ms

buswindowfeatured-50x50.jpg

buswindowfeatured-50x50.jpg

887 ms

InterCity-2014-480x320.jpg

InterCity-2014-480x320.jpg

50 ms

SkipBus_backpacker-450x300.jpg

SkipBus_backpacker-450x300.jpg

78 ms

SkipBus_151118-450x300.jpg

SkipBus_151118-450x300.jpg

1095 ms

southislandbusfeatured-450x300.jpg

southislandbusfeatured-450x300.jpg

1116 ms

akaroafeatured-450x300.jpg

akaroafeatured-450x300.jpg

81 ms

buswindowfeatured-450x300.jpg

buswindowfeatured-450x300.jpg

1149 ms

Matamata2-450x300.jpg

Matamata2-450x300.jpg

1926 ms

A-P-Show-Header-480x320.jpg

A-P-Show-Header-480x320.jpg

2151 ms

Grayline-1-edit-480x320.jpg

Grayline-1-edit-480x320.jpg

1947 ms

weird-new-zealand-food-eskimo-lollies-480x320.jpg

weird-new-zealand-food-eskimo-lollies-480x320.jpg

1938 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

2349 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjxAwWyWtFCc.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjxAwWyWtFCc.ttf

41 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA3q5d0.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHA3q5d0.ttf

50 ms

SkipBus_151118-1300x800.jpg

SkipBus_151118-1300x800.jpg

1075 ms

southislandbusfeatured-1300x621.jpg

southislandbusfeatured-1300x621.jpg

1082 ms

buswindowfeatured-1300x654.jpg

buswindowfeatured-1300x654.jpg

1088 ms

Accessibility Review

backpackerbus.co.nz accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

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

backpackerbus.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

SEO Factors

backpackerbus.co.nz SEO score

83

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 Backpackerbus.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 Backpackerbus.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

backpackerbus.co.nz

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Backpacker Bus. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: