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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% 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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

drivelife.co.nz

Car Reviews New and Used New Zealand - Enthusiast Driven Motoring - DriveLife

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

396 ms

drivelife.co.nz screenshot

About Website

Visit drivelife.co.nz now to see the best up-to-date Drive Life content for New Zealand and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about drivelife.co.nz

New Zealand's only source of full-length car reviews and road tests. Over 500 unbiased car reviews, available to everyone.

Visit drivelife.co.nz

Key Findings

We analyzed Drivelife.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

drivelife.co.nz performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.382

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.drivelife.co.nz

1201 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

52 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

52 ms

style.css

48 ms

css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Drivelife.co.nz, 16% (8 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 14% (7 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Drivelife.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Drivelife.co.nz main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 727.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 272.8 kB

  • Original 314.3 kB
  • After minification 279.3 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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 35.0 kB, which is 11% 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 272.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 727.4 kB
  • After minification 727.4 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. Drive Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 169.1 kB
  • After minification 169.1 kB
  • After compression 167.8 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 158.8 kB
  • After minification 158.8 kB
  • After compression 135.8 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. Drivelife.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (67%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Drive Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.drivelife.co.nz

www.drivelife.co.nz

1201 ms

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52 ms

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52 ms

style.css

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48 ms

css

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92 ms

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85 ms

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58 ms

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64 ms

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89 ms

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51 ms

jetpack.css

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52 ms

jquery.min.js

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57 ms

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56 ms

js

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195 ms

adsbygoogle.js

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193 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

143 ms

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501 ms

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156 ms

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156 ms

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156 ms

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156 ms

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157 ms

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357 ms

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355 ms

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tdMenu.js

355 ms

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358 ms

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357 ms

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356 ms

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138 ms

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77 ms

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66 ms

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52 ms

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61 ms

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99 ms

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12 ms

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15 ms

Accessibility Review

drivelife.co.nz accessibility score

87

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

drivelife.co.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

drivelife.co.nz SEO score

100

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

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 Drivelife.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 Drivelife.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

drivelife.co.nz

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