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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

southernsteel.co.nz

Southern Steel Netball ANZ Premiership for New Zealand Netball

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

856 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

308 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Southern Steel content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about southernsteel.co.nz

Southern Steel is the face of southern netball in New Zealand competing in the ANZ Premiership netball league.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southernsteel.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 856 ms and then it took 5.2 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

southernsteel.co.nz performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.southernsteel.co.nz

856 ms

2158konstruk.js

425 ms

424deferred.js

635 ms

58917_231.css

841 ms

31NavDropdown.js

846 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Southernsteel.co.nz, 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Tags.bkrtx.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Southernsteel.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southernsteel.co.nz 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 18.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 100.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Southern Steel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 70.3 kB
  • After minification 70.3 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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 11.9 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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. Southernsteel.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (25%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Steel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.southernsteel.co.nz

www.southernsteel.co.nz

856 ms

2158konstruk.js

2158konstruk.js

425 ms

424deferred.js

424deferred.js

635 ms

58917_231.css

58917_231.css

841 ms

31NavDropdown.js

31NavDropdown.js

846 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

44 ms

TopHeadernew_58931_7.jpg

TopHeadernew_58931_7.jpg

420 ms

membership_Header_100401_1.jpg

membership_Header_100401_1.jpg

1440 ms

PreSeason_100443_1.jpg

PreSeason_100443_1.jpg

1043 ms

News_80998_5.jpg

News_80998_5.jpg

835 ms

MoreFM_61766_4.jpg

MoreFM_61766_4.jpg

1255 ms

Gear_90517_2.jpg

Gear_90517_2.jpg

1647 ms

Netball-Smart_69020_4.jpg

Netball-Smart_69020_4.jpg

1253 ms

NetFit_83335_1.jpg

NetFit_83335_1.jpg

1254 ms

Footer-2023_58923_5.jpg

Footer-2023_58923_5.jpg

1254 ms

bk-coretag.js

bk-coretag.js

143 ms

js

js

42 ms

84810

84810

84 ms

9totop.css

9totop.css

209 ms

ui.totop.png

ui.totop.png

211 ms

6colorbox1.css

6colorbox1.css

210 ms

Accessibility Review

southernsteel.co.nz accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

southernsteel.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

southernsteel.co.nz SEO score

86

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

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 Southernsteel.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 Southernsteel.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

southernsteel.co.nz

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Southern Steel. 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: