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Earth Sciences New Zealand

niwa.co.nz

Measured by our bot, 28 to 29 October

In October 2026, an average page view on Earth Sciences New Zealand’s website weighed 3.20 MB: 29th of 34 New Zealand government agencies we scored.

Gradei

Grade F

  1. A+
  2. A
  3. B
  4. C
  5. D
  6. E
  7. F
  8. G
  9. H

Pretty massive.

3.20 MBAn average page viewi

Heaviest page: Homepage, 4.88 MB. This blends the phone and the laptop, and the page as a first page and as a later page, the first page counting three times as much. Each page’s figures

Over time

An average page view, MBi
An average page view, MB by month
October 20263.20 MB

First measured October 2026.

Among central government

Rank, lightest firsti

29th of 34

Phone and laptopi

Homepage, first page

The five pages

First pageiLater pagei

  1. Homepage

    /

    Video: 0.02 MB, counted in the weight.

    First page

    Phone 4.88 MB

    Laptop 5.62 MB

    Later page

    Phone 3.44 MB

    Laptop 4.11 MB

  2. Services

    /climate-and-weather/weather-and-climate-forecasting-services

    Video: 0.02 MB, counted in the weight.

    First page

    Phone 3.44 MB

    Laptop 3.53 MB

    Later page

    Phone 2.01 MB

    Laptop 2.02 MB

  3. News

    /news

    Video: 0.02 MB, counted in the weight.

    First page

    Phone 3.17 MB

    Laptop 4.70 MB

    Later page

    Phone 1.08 MB

    Laptop 1.19 MB

  4. About

    /about

    Video: 0.02 MB, counted in the weight.

    First page

    Phone 3.79 MB

    Laptop 4.22 MB

    Later page

    Phone nothing downloaded

    Laptop under 0.01 MB

  5. Contact

    /contact

    Video: 0.02 MB, counted in the weight.

    First page

    Phone 2.10 MB

    Laptop 2.21 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.63 MB

    Laptop 0.65 MB

Whose weight it is

Homepage, first page on a phone, 4.88 MB

Earth Sciences New Zealand’s own filesi3.84 MB79%

Other companies’ filesi1.04 MB21%

What it is made ofi

Homepage, first page on a phone, 4.88 MB

The heaviest files

Across the pages we measured

  1. Image · Earth Sciences New Zealand

    wellington_storm_8_sept_2017_DSC_0230_credit_dave_allen_NIWA.png

    Services

    1.47 MB

  2. Image · Earth Sciences New Zealand

    news.jpg

    News

    0.91 MB

  3. Image · Earth Sciences New Zealand

    Earth Sciences website_v3 low res.png

    Homepage

    0.73 MB

  4. Image · Earth Sciences New Zealand

    2022_PHOTO_COMP_Skyline_Hookcropped.jpg

    Homepage

    0.68 MB

  5. Image · Earth Sciences New Zealand

    TAMAKIDRIVE_banner.jpg

    Homepage

    0.66 MB

We found 6 savings. Here they are.

Fix
Nothing a visitor would notice
Choice
Removes or delays something

Worked out on a phone and a laptop. The icons show where each saving applies.

  1. Fix

    Resize and compress 10 images to the size screens show them

    Homepage and 2 more · Earth Sciences New Zealand Laptop

    Homepage, News, Contact

    Saves most on the homepage

    up to 1.53 MB

  2. Choice

    FontAwesome CDN: you choose whether it loads

    Every page · FontAwesome CDN

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.48 MB

  3. Choice

    Google Fonts: you choose whether it loads

    Every page · Google Fonts

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.15 MB

  4. Fix

    Ship less of your own code: scripts and styles that did not run while the homepage loaded

    Every page · Earth Sciences New Zealand

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.12 MB

  5. Fix

    Compress 1 image that is already the right size

    Homepage and 1 more · Earth Sciences New Zealand Laptop

    Homepage, News

    Saves most on the homepage

    up to 0.11 MB

  6. Fix

    Compress 20 of your own text files

    Every page · Earth Sciences New Zealand

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.05 MB

Carboni

If this website had 100,000 page views a year, they would cause about 29 kg of carbon emissions.

Built to grade A (an average page view of 0.53 MB or less), the same page views would cause about 4.8 kg.

Your traffic

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Type your own yearly page views here

That's about 320 GB of data a year.

Add your grade to your website

A grade C badge needs an average page view of 1.41 MB or less. Earth Sciences New Zealand’s is 3.20 MB.

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