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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

earthandsky.co.nz

Dark Sky Project (formerly Earth & Sky) - Stargazing in Tekapo

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

979 ms

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About Website

Visit earthandsky.co.nz now to see the best up-to-date Earth And Sky content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about earthandsky.co.nz

Discover the dark sky reserve at Lake Tekapo, New Zealand - one of the world's best places for stargazing. Book our guided astronomy & stargazing tours here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Earthandsky.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

earthandsky.co.nz performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkskyproject.co.nz

1052 ms

gtm.js

60 ms

js

95 ms

main.css

405 ms

bundle.css

823 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Earthandsky.co.nz, 11% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Darkskyproject.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 540.0 kB (6%)

Content Size

8.6 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Earthandsky.co.nz main page is 8.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 8.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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 9.7 kB, which is 18% 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 44.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 273.9 kB

  • Original 8.0 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Earth And Sky images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 221.5 kB

  • Original 430.7 kB
  • After minification 430.7 kB
  • After compression 209.2 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 221.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 160 B

  • Original 95.7 kB
  • After minification 95.7 kB
  • After compression 95.6 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. Earthandsky.co.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (26%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Earth And Sky. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.darkskyproject.co.nz

www.darkskyproject.co.nz

1052 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

60 ms

js

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95 ms

main.css

main.css

405 ms

bundle.css

bundle.css

823 ms

footer-links.css

footer-links.css

615 ms

bundle.js

bundle.js

617 ms

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site.min.js

1021 ms

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607 ms

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996 ms

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1200 ms

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1208 ms

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1237 ms

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1548 ms

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1593 ms

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2613 ms

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3156 ms

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1489 ms

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1507 ms

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3306 ms

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2727 ms

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2758 ms

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128 ms

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9 ms

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29 ms

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58 ms

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137 ms

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24 ms

Accessibility Review

earthandsky.co.nz accessibility score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

earthandsky.co.nz best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

earthandsky.co.nz SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Earthandsky.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 Earthandsky.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

earthandsky.co.nz

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