Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

therock.net.nz

The Rock: NZ's best rock radio station | rova

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

therock.net.nz screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Rock content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about therock.net.nz

The home of The Morning Rumble and The Rock Drive with Jay & Dunc, Not For Radio, The No Repeat Workday, The Rock 2000 and just all round good bants.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Therock.net.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 9.1 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

therock.net.nz performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,640 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.7 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

therock.net.nz

199 ms

therock.net.nz

425 ms

www.therock.net.nz

10 ms

www.therock.net.nz

420 ms

home.html

3 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Therock.net.nz, 4% (4 requests) were made to Firebase.mediaworks.nz and 4% (4 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Therock.net.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 447.3 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Therock.net.nz main page is 4.5 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 232.8 kB

  • Original 264.0 kB
  • After minification 243.9 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 232.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 117.7 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. The Rock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 96.8 kB

  • Original 486.6 kB
  • After minification 486.4 kB
  • After compression 389.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 96.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (34%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Rock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

therock.net.nz accessibility score

77

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

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

therock.net.nz best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

therock.net.nz SEO score

84

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 Therock.net.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 Therock.net.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

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