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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

higgins.co.nz

Home | Higgins

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

400 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

408 ms

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About Website

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

Higgins is a dynamic and trusted New Zealand civil construction business. Our purpose is to make places better for generations to come. With a 1600-strong team, we have broad capabilities and resource...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Higgins.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 400 ms and then it took 9 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

higgins.co.nz performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.283

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.higgins.co.nz

400 ms

www.higgins.co.nz

5809 ms

js

78 ms

hotjar-1207794.js

269 ms

fbevents.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Higgins.co.nz, 7% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Higgins.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 270.3 kB (40%)

Content Size

681.7 kB

After Optimization

411.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Higgins.co.nz main page is 681.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 293.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 230.9 kB

  • Original 293.4 kB
  • After minification 270.5 kB
  • After compression 62.5 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 230.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 110.8 kB
  • After minification 84.9 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. Obviously, Higgins needs image optimization as it can save up to 25.9 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 234.2 kB
  • After minification 234.2 kB
  • After compression 232.8 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 43.2 kB
  • After minification 43.2 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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. Higgins.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (31%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Higgins. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.higgins.co.nz

www.higgins.co.nz

400 ms

www.higgins.co.nz

www.higgins.co.nz

5809 ms

js

js

78 ms

hotjar-1207794.js

hotjar-1207794.js

269 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

23 ms

app.css

app.css

501 ms

higgins.css

higgins.css

768 ms

blocks-b04f3eb.css

blocks-b04f3eb.css

735 ms

duotone-imagetextblock.css

duotone-imagetextblock.css

771 ms

app.js

app.js

707 ms

higgins.js

higgins.js

596 ms

NocaptchaField.js

NocaptchaField.js

727 ms

HigginsLogoModifyGreen2.svg

HigginsLogoModifyGreen2.svg

244 ms

HigginsLogoModifyWhite2.svg

HigginsLogoModifyWhite2.svg

245 ms

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246 ms

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243 ms

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254 ms

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311 ms

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468 ms

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469 ms

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home_signage__FocusFillWyIwLjA1IiwiMC4wOSIsNjQsNjRd.jpg

478 ms

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477 ms

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501 ms

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547 ms

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706 ms

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708 ms

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contactus_banner__FillWzYsNF0.jpg

713 ms

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712 ms

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787 ms

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784 ms

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940 ms

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942 ms

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Higgins-logo__ScaleMaxHeightWzEwMF0.png

949 ms

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Higgins-logo-colour__ScaleMaxHeightWzEwMF0.png

951 ms

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1029 ms

GraphikRegular.woff

GraphikRegular.woff

1152 ms

GraphikMedium.woff

GraphikMedium.woff

1187 ms

GraphikSemiBold.woff

GraphikSemiBold.woff

1187 ms

api.js

api.js

35 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

23 ms

fallback

fallback

21 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

4 ms

css

css

29 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

3 ms

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18 ms

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21 ms

Accessibility Review

higgins.co.nz accessibility score

92

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

higgins.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

higgins.co.nz SEO score

83

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

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 Higgins.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 Higgins.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

higgins.co.nz

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