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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

bowersbrothers.co.nz

Bowers Brothers Concrete - Superior quality concrete

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

476 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

491 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bowersbrothers.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 476 ms and then it took 5.4 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

bowersbrothers.co.nz performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.182

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bowersbrothers.co.nz

476 ms

bowersbrothers.co.nz

1138 ms

wpo-minify-header-9eb3f8e0.min.css

846 ms

wpo-minify-header-6ec81e1f.min.js

901 ms

js

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Bowersbrothers.co.nz, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Bowersbrothers.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 301.0 kB (31%)

Content Size

984.8 kB

After Optimization

683.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bowersbrothers.co.nz main page is 984.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 411.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 146.0 kB

  • Original 166.3 kB
  • After minification 158.2 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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. 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 146.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 944 B

  • Original 411.6 kB
  • After minification 410.7 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. Bowers Brothers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 116 B

  • Original 250.0 kB
  • After minification 250.0 kB
  • After compression 249.9 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

-98%

Potential reduce by 154.0 kB

  • Original 156.8 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Bowersbrothers.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 154.0 kB or 98% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

32

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bowers Brothers. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

bowersbrothers.co.nz

bowersbrothers.co.nz

476 ms

bowersbrothers.co.nz

bowersbrothers.co.nz

1138 ms

wpo-minify-header-9eb3f8e0.min.css

wpo-minify-header-9eb3f8e0.min.css

846 ms

wpo-minify-header-6ec81e1f.min.js

wpo-minify-header-6ec81e1f.min.js

901 ms

js

js

65 ms

wpo-minify-footer-31603c63.min.css

wpo-minify-footer-31603c63.min.css

669 ms

wpo-minify-footer-cd0f31e6.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-cd0f31e6.min.js

1350 ms

e-202437.js

e-202437.js

19 ms

wpo-minify-footer-523e346c.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-523e346c.min.js

956 ms

wpo-minify-footer-548d125d.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-548d125d.min.js

689 ms

wpo-minify-footer-50d93502.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-50d93502.min.js

1341 ms

23646fd615.js

23646fd615.js

53 ms

Bowers-Logo-Navy-1024x221.png

Bowers-Logo-Navy-1024x221.png

212 ms

Bowers-Logo-White-1024x221.png

Bowers-Logo-White-1024x221.png

231 ms

Bowers-Cadrona-Brick-Veneer-1.jpg

Bowers-Cadrona-Brick-Veneer-1.jpg

431 ms

Commercial.jpg

Commercial.jpg

473 ms

Agricultural.jpg

Agricultural.jpg

631 ms

MSPC-PTNR-HORIZ-500W.png

MSPC-PTNR-HORIZ-500W.png

473 ms

itm-logo.png

itm-logo.png

642 ms

carters-logo.png

carters-logo.png

661 ms

PeterFell-Logo-1.png

PeterFell-Logo-1.png

672 ms

mitre-10-logo.png

mitre-10-logo.png

680 ms

allan-block-logo.png

allan-block-logo.png

690 ms

bunnings-logo.png

bunnings-logo.png

840 ms

nzls-logo.png

nzls-logo.png

850 ms

vertiblock-logo.png

vertiblock-logo.png

884 ms

placemakers-logo.png

placemakers-logo.png

895 ms

nz-certified-builders-association.png

nz-certified-builders-association.png

906 ms

timber-world.png

timber-world.png

915 ms

MBAB-logo.jpg

MBAB-logo.jpg

1049 ms

Citi-Landscape-Logo.jpg

Citi-Landscape-Logo.jpg

1060 ms

Concrete-NZ-Logo.jpg

Concrete-NZ-Logo.jpg

1107 ms

Concrete-nz-readymix-logo.jpg

Concrete-nz-readymix-logo.jpg

1118 ms

Concrete-nz-cement-logo.jpg

Concrete-nz-cement-logo.jpg

1129 ms

Concrete-nz-masonry-logo.jpg

Concrete-nz-masonry-logo.jpg

1138 ms

Concrete-nz-Precast-logo.jpg

Concrete-nz-Precast-logo.jpg

1280 ms

castrol-logo.jpg

castrol-logo.jpg

1281 ms

ils-logo-1.jpg

ils-logo-1.jpg

1331 ms

Bowers-Masonry-Logo.png

Bowers-Masonry-Logo.png

1342 ms

Bowers-Redi-Mix-Logo.png

Bowers-Redi-Mix-Logo.png

1352 ms

Bowers-Precast-Logo.png

Bowers-Precast-Logo.png

1362 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

1592 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1562 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

2212 ms

jupiterx.woff

jupiterx.woff

1963 ms

Accessibility Review

bowersbrothers.co.nz accessibility score

84

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

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 IDs are not unique

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

bowersbrothers.co.nz best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bowersbrothers.co.nz SEO score

90

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 Bowersbrothers.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 Bowersbrothers.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

bowersbrothers.co.nz

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