Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% 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

snowhq.com

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

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

370 ms

snowhq.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Snow Hq content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about snowhq.com

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 Snowhq.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

snowhq.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.snowhq.com

1537 ms

layout.min.css

441 ms

operators.css

442 ms

tourismdata.css

665 ms

base.min.css

667 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Snowhq.com, 9% (10 requests) were made to Google.com and 5% (6 requests) were made to O.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Snowhq.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 647.1 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

954.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Snowhq.com main page is 1.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 677.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 110.2 kB

  • Original 148.8 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 38.6 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. 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 110.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 677.1 kB
  • After minification 664.3 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 Hq images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 411.0 kB

  • Original 637.3 kB
  • After minification 635.3 kB
  • After compression 226.3 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 411.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 138.3 kB
  • After minification 123.5 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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. Snowhq.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (56%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Snow Hq. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

snowhq.com 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

snowhq.com 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

snowhq.com 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Snowhq.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Snowhq.com 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Snow Hq. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: