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Measured by our bot, 21 Oct 2026

In October 2026, an average page view on Stats NZ’s website weighed 2.08 MB: 22nd of 34 New Zealand government agencies we scored.

Gradei

Grade E

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

Hefty.

2.08 MBAn average page viewi

Range this month: 2.01 to 2.16 MBi

Heaviest page: Homepage, 2.67 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 20262.08 MB

First measured October 2026.

Among central government

Rank, lightest firsti

22nd of 34

Phone and laptopi

Homepage, first page

The five pages

First pageiLater pagei

  1. Homepage

    /

    First page

    Phone 3.14 MB

    Laptop 3.14 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.86 MB

    Laptop 1.62 MB

  2. Services

    /services/

    First page

    Phone 2.29 MB

    Laptop 2.29 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.79 MB

    Laptop 0.79 MB

  3. News

    /insights/

    First page

    Phone 2.67 MB

    Laptop 2.67 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.79 MB

    Laptop 0.55 MB

  4. About

    /about-us/

    First page

    Phone 2.29 MB

    Laptop 2.29 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.01 MB

    Laptop 0.77 MB

  5. Contact

    /contact-us/

    First page

    Phone 2.29 MB

    Laptop 2.29 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.01 MB

    Laptop 0.77 MB

Whose weight it is

Homepage, first page on a phone, 3.14 MB

Stats NZ’s own filesi1.73 MB55%

Other companies’ filesi1.41 MB45%

What it is made ofi

Homepage, first page on a phone, 3.14 MB

The heaviest files

Across the pages we measured

  1. Script · Stats NZ

    app.js

    Every page

    0.58 MB

  2. Script · Stats NZ

    charts.js

    Homepage and 1 more

    0.26 MB

  3. Image · Stats NZ

    Townhouses-building-consents.jpg

    Homepage

    0.22 MB

  4. Script · Google Tag Manager

    googletagmanager.com/gtag/js

    Every page

    0.19 MB

  5. Script · Google Tag Manager

    gtm.js

    Every page

    0.17 MB

We found 12 savings. Here are the 5 biggest.

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

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

    Homepage and 1 more · Stats NZ Laptop

    Homepage, News

    Saves most on the homepage

    up to 0.42 MB

  2. Choice

    Adobe TypeKit: you choose whether it loads

    Every page · Adobe TypeKit

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.38 MB

  3. Choice

    Load the chat only when someone opens it

    Every page · LiveChat

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.27 MB

  4. Fix

    Send next pages as differences from the last one (shared compression dictionaries), in Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers. Safari and Firefox do not support it yet.

    Services and 3 more · Stats NZ

    Services, News, About, Contact

    Saves most on the Services page

    up to 0.19 MB

  5. Fix

    Compress 25 of your own text files

    Every page · Stats NZ

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.18 MB

Carboni

If this website had 100,000 page views a year, they would cause about 19 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

Optional, for an average page view. Worked out on your screen, never sent to us.

Type your own yearly page views here

That's about 208 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. Stats NZ’s is 2.08 MB.

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