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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

etc.ac.nz

English Teaching College - ETC | Over 25 Years of Excellence

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

602 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

416 ms

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About Website

Welcome to etc.ac.nz homepage info - get ready to check ETC best content for New Zealand right away, or after learning these important things about etc.ac.nz

ETC is a friendly multicultural language school with a record of academic excellence. ETC has three campuses in Palmerston North, Lower Hutt and Wellington.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Etc.ac.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 602 ms and then it took 8.7 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

etc.ac.nz performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

etc.ac.nz

602 ms

www.etc.ac.nz

3828 ms

css

39 ms

layerslider.css

208 ms

awesome-weather.css

608 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Etc.ac.nz, 27% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Etc.ac.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (40%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Etc.ac.nz main page is 2.7 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 136.2 kB

  • Original 160.3 kB
  • After minification 159.2 kB
  • After compression 24.2 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 136.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 67.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. ETC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 690.2 kB

  • Original 991.6 kB
  • After minification 990.2 kB
  • After compression 301.4 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 690.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 160.0 kB

  • Original 186.0 kB
  • After minification 178.4 kB
  • After compression 26.0 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. Etc.ac.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (39%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ETC. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

etc.ac.nz

etc.ac.nz

602 ms

www.etc.ac.nz

www.etc.ac.nz

3828 ms

css

css

39 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

208 ms

awesome-weather.css

awesome-weather.css

608 ms

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css

33 ms

style-index.css

style-index.css

596 ms

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1959 ms

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594 ms

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1183 ms

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layerslider.transitions.js

997 ms

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js

66 ms

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css

32 ms

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1195 ms

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2099 ms

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212 ms

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212 ms

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212 ms

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406 ms

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1182 ms

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215 ms

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423 ms

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420 ms

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423 ms

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613 ms

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612 ms

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627 ms

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628 ms

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Accessibility Review

etc.ac.nz accessibility score

91

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.

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

Best Practices

etc.ac.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

SEO Factors

etc.ac.nz SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Etc.ac.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 Etc.ac.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

etc.ac.nz

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