Squirrel
squirrel.
Measured by our bot, 19 to 20 October
In October 2026, an average page view on Squirrel’s website weighed at least 1.11 MB: the lightest of 7 New Zealand lenders and payment providers we scored.
Gradei
Grade C
- A+
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
Yeah nah.
At least1.11 MBAn average page viewi
Range this month: 1.04 to 1.14 MBi
Still downloading when we stopped measuring, so this website weighs more than this. What “at least” means
Heaviest page: Contact, 1.68 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
| October 2026 | 1.11 MB |
|---|
First measured October 2026.
Among lending and payments
Rank, lightest firsti
The lightest of 7
- Squirrel
Phone and laptopi
Homepage, first page
Phone
1.05 MB
Laptop
1.06 MB
The five pages
Homepage
/
First page
Phone 1.05 MB
Laptop 1.06 MB
Later page
Phone 0.31 MB
Laptop 0.48 MB
Loans
/
mortgages First page
Phone 1.23 MB
Laptop at least 1.11 MB
Later page
Phone 0.32 MB
Laptop 0.31 MB
Rates
/
mortgages/ interest-rates First page
Phone 1.38 MB
Laptop 1.38 MB
Later page
Phone 0.29 MB
Laptop 0.29 MB
Property Finance
/
property-finance First page
Phone 1.18 MB
Laptop 1.17 MB
Later page
Phone 0.25 MB
Laptop 0.26 MB
Contact
/
meet-the-team/ contact First page
Phone 2.07 MB
Laptop 2.08 MB
Later page
Phone 0.48 MB
Laptop 0.48 MB
Whose weight it is
Homepage, first page on a phone, 1.05 MB
- 0.84 MB80%
Squirrel’s own files
This website
- 0.20 MB20%
Google Tag Manager
Tag manager
What it is made ofi
Homepage, first page on a phone, 1.05 MB
Scripts
0.59 MBOther
0.33 MBFonts
0.08 MBImages
0.05 MB
The heaviest files
Across the pages we measured
Script · Google reCAPTCHA
recaptcha__en.js (/recaptcha/releases/NhfdZHzre166o-vFZrWsq3yu/recaptcha__en.js)
Contact
0.36 MB
Script · Google reCAPTCHA
recaptcha__en.js (/recaptcha/releases/4EDjxXf4knsx6UBM1L2V6cv8/recaptcha__en.js)
Contact
0.35 MB
Script · Google Tag Manager
googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
Every page
0.20 MB
File · Squirrel
squirrel.co.nz/mortgages/interest-rates
Rates
0.19 MB
File · Squirrel
squirrel.co.nz/mortgages
Loans
0.17 MB
We found 7 savings. Here are the 3 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.
- Fix
Ship less of your own code: scripts and styles that did not run while the homepage loaded
Every page · Squirrel
Saves this on every page
up to 0.28 MB
- Choice
Google reCAPTCHA: you choose whether it loads
Contact · Google reCAPTCHA Laptop
Saves most on the Contact page
0.24 MB
- Fix
Compress 49 of your own text files
Every page · Squirrel
Saves this on every page
up to 0.12 MB
Carboni
If this website had 100,000 page views a year, they would cause about 10 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.
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Plain text version
Web page weight grade C by YeahNah · at least 1.11 MB a page · October 2026