Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

westpac.co.nz

Westpac New Zealand - Helping New Zealanders with their banking.

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

92 ms

westpac.co.nz screenshot

About Website

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

Westpac provides online banking, bank accounts, home loans/mortgages, credit cards, personal loans, foreign exchange, insurance, KiwiSaver, savings and investment solutions to kiwis.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westpac.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westpac.co.nz performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,130 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.284

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westpac.co.nz

1133 ms

styles.min.css

1378 ms

head.min.js

1192 ms

SpeedTrapInsert.js

577 ms

tail.min.js

578 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Westpac.co.nz, 20% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Personalise.westpac.co.nz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Westpac.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (45%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Westpac.co.nz main page is 3.0 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 86.7 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 10.4 kB, which is 12% 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 73.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 140.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Westpac images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 377.3 kB

  • Original 571.2 kB
  • After minification 516.5 kB
  • After compression 193.9 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 377.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 755.1 kB

  • Original 851.1 kB
  • After minification 845.6 kB
  • After compression 96.0 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. Westpac.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 755.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (24%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westpac. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westpac.co.nz accessibility score

98

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Best Practices

westpac.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

SEO Factors

westpac.co.nz SEO score

92

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

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 Westpac.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 Westpac.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

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