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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

snow.co.nz

New Zealand Snow Reports, Weather & Snow Forecast. Webcams | SnowNZ

Page Load Speed

8.1 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

781 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Snow content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about snow.co.nz

New Zealand snow reports, weather reports, 10 day snow forecasts & webcams for all NZ ski areas. The ultimate guide to skiing & snowboarding in NZ!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Snow.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 8 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

snow.co.nz performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,480 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

snow.co.nz

96 ms

www.snow.nz

4017 ms

js

44 ms

js

52 ms

analytics.js

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Snow.co.nz, 59% (27 requests) were made to Snow.nz and 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) relates to the external source Snow.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 486.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Snow.co.nz main page is 1.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 759.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 393.5 kB

  • Original 495.6 kB
  • After minification 372.8 kB
  • After compression 102.1 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 122.8 kB, which is 25% 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 393.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.4 kB

  • Original 759.0 kB
  • After minification 732.7 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. Snow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 66.3 kB

  • Original 567.3 kB
  • After minification 567.3 kB
  • After compression 501.0 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 66.3 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 227 B

  • Original 38.1 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 37.9 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. Snow.co.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (37%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Snow. 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

snow.co.nz

snow.co.nz

96 ms

www.snow.nz

www.snow.nz

4017 ms

js

js

44 ms

js

js

52 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

collect

collect

65 ms

collect

collect

35 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

193 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

47 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

1319 ms

common.min.js

common.min.js

840 ms

all.js

all.js

154 ms

agile-min.js

agile-min.js

170 ms

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67 ms

04.svg

04.svg

855 ms

01d.svg

01d.svg

90 ms

correct.png

correct.png

98 ms

50.svg

50.svg

109 ms

Google-Play-Button-200__Resampled.png

Google-Play-Button-200__Resampled.png

135 ms

App-Store-Button-200.png

App-Store-Button-200.png

118 ms

lazy-bg.jpg

lazy-bg.jpg

130 ms

arrow-right.png

arrow-right.png

143 ms

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Learn-to-Snowboard-Porters-Ski-Area__FillWzEsNDE1XQ.jpg

148 ms

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IMG_4138__FillWzEsNDE1XQ.JPG

153 ms

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MtHutt-June6-2023__FillWzEwLDEwXQ.jpg

184 ms

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BrokenRiver-Aug12-2022__FillWzEwLDEwXQ.jpg

176 ms

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Ohau-July-8-2022__FillWzEwLDEwXQ.jpg

167 ms

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MtHutt-June6-2023__Resampled.jpg

192 ms

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BrokenRiver-Aug12-2022__Resampled.jpg

216 ms

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Ohau-July-8-2022__Resampled.jpg

207 ms

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android-app-store.png

221 ms

apple-app-store.png

apple-app-store.png

230 ms

app.js

app.js

68 ms

footer-bg.jpg

footer-bg.jpg

194 ms

app.min.css

app.min.css

180 ms

icon

icon

37 ms

css

css

56 ms

agile-webrules-min.js

agile-webrules-min.js

53 ms

web-rules

web-rules

230 ms

feature-overlay.png

feature-overlay.png

113 ms

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84 ms

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152 ms

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151 ms

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152 ms

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1575 ms

Accessibility Review

snow.co.nz accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

snow.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

snow.co.nz SEO score

79

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

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 Snow.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 Snow.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

snow.co.nz

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