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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

coastguard.nz

We're for boaties, whatever your waka | Coastguard NZ

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

443 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Coastguard.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

coastguard.nz performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.764

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

coastguard.nz

38 ms

coastguard.nz

890 ms

www.coastguard.nz

906 ms

jquery_and_plugins

633 ms

site_custom

894 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Coastguard.nz, 4% (2 requests) were made to Analytics.clickdimensions.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Coastguard.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 464.6 kB (9%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Coastguard.nz main page is 5.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 6.9 kB, which is 20% 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 27.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 412.6 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Coastguard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 58.2 kB
  • After minification 58.2 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 24.1 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 759 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Coastguard.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 759 B or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (19%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Coastguard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

coastguard.nz

coastguard.nz

38 ms

coastguard.nz

coastguard.nz

890 ms

www.coastguard.nz

www.coastguard.nz

906 ms

jquery_and_plugins

jquery_and_plugins

633 ms

site_custom

site_custom

894 ms

css

css

1052 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

31 ms

menu.script.js

menu.script.js

37 ms

menu.styles.css

menu.styles.css

28 ms

knockout-2.2.1.js

knockout-2.2.1.js

40 ms

app.js

app.js

43 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

68 ms

cg_tautiaki-moana_rgb_primary.png

cg_tautiaki-moana_rgb_primary.png

51 ms

metservicedotcom.jpg

metservicedotcom.jpg

50 ms

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118-lock-up-_1430-x-430.png

90 ms

bar-awareness-seminar-banner.png

bar-awareness-seminar-banner.png

94 ms

membership-new-web-banner-cnz-1400x430.png

membership-new-web-banner-cnz-1400x430.png

92 ms

bar-awareness-web-1.png

bar-awareness-web-1.png

63 ms

kayla_web-frontpage.png

kayla_web-frontpage.png

61 ms

kayla.png

kayla.png

91 ms

acc-sized.png

acc-sized.png

92 ms

northland-regional-council.jpg

northland-regional-council.jpg

92 ms

wrc-logo_teal.png

wrc-logo_teal.png

94 ms

boprc-logo.jpeg

boprc-logo.jpeg

95 ms

Hutchwilco_210x100_TEST_TWO.png

Hutchwilco_210x100_TEST_TWO.png

94 ms

marine-deals-logo-210x100.jpg

marine-deals-logo-210x100.jpg

95 ms

tower-210x100.png

tower-210x100.png

96 ms

kordia-210x100.png

kordia-210x100.png

97 ms

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98 ms

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line7-logo-crop.png

101 ms

century-battery.png

century-battery.png

118 ms

half-moon-bay-logo-square.jpg

half-moon-bay-logo-square.jpg

100 ms

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105 ms

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111 ms

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110 ms

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122 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

114 ms

bgr-header.png

bgr-header.png

106 ms

btn-search.png

btn-search.png

111 ms

bgr-overlay.png

bgr-overlay.png

117 ms

bgr-red-arrow.png

bgr-red-arrow.png

121 ms

bgr-badge.png

bgr-badge.png

120 ms

ico_becomemember.png

ico_becomemember.png

128 ms

nzcg_icon_03_white_50w_box_membership.png

nzcg_icon_03_white_50w_box_membership.png

123 ms

nzcg_icon_23_white_38w_course.png

nzcg_icon_23_white_38w_course.png

124 ms

nzcg_icon_08_white_45w_box_donate.png

nzcg_icon_08_white_45w_box_donate.png

129 ms

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bgr-social.png

131 ms

bgr-white-arrow-left.png

bgr-white-arrow-left.png

94 ms

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99 ms

ts.js

ts.js

116 ms

tsr.js

tsr.js

76 ms

Accessibility Review

coastguard.nz accessibility score

79

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

coastguard.nz best practices score

67

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

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

coastguard.nz SEO score

81

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Coastguard.nz can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Coastguard.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

coastguard.nz

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