New Plymouth District Council

1. Oct 2026

First measured October 2026.

1. Kāpiti Coast District Council, 1.23 MB
2. Waimakariri District Council, 1.26 MB
3. Hamilton City Council, 1.59 MB
4. Hutt City Council, 1.61 MB
5. Whangārei District Council, 1.92 MB
6. Invercargill City Council, 2.11 MB
7. Tauranga City Council, 2.12 MB
8. Auckland Council, 2.24 MB
9. Far North District Council, 2.32 MB
10. Western Bay of Plenty District Council, 2.34 MB
11. Christchurch City Council, at least 2.54 MB
12. Dunedin City Council, 2.65 MB
13. Waikato District Council, at least 2.77 MB
14. Palmerston North City Council, at least 2.78 MB
15. Rotorua Lakes Council, 3.13 MB
16. Napier City Council, 3.56 MB
17. Nelson City Council, 3.86 MB
18. Selwyn District Council, 5.98 MB
19. New Plymouth District Council, 6.29 MB

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LightestHeaviest

• New Plymouth District Council

• Phone

  14.74 MB

• Laptop

  14.77 MB

First pageiLater pagei

1. Homepage

   /

   First page

   Phone 14.74 MB

   Laptop 14.77 MB

   Later page

   Phone 13.03 MB

   Laptop 13.05 MB

2. Rubbish and recycling

   /zero-waste/

   First page

   Phone 5.61 MB

   Laptop 5.61 MB

   Later page

   Phone 3.88 MB

   Laptop 3.88 MB

3. Rates

   /home-and-property/rates-information/

   First page

   Phone 4.28 MB

   Laptop 4.29 MB

   Later page

   Phone 2.35 MB

   Laptop 2.32 MB

4. Building consents

   /home-and-property/building-and-resource-consents/

   First page

   Phone 2.54 MB

   Laptop 2.58 MB

   Later page

   Phone 0.75 MB

   Laptop 0.75 MB

5. Contact

   /contact-us/

   First page

   Phone 6.09 MB

   Laptop 6.71 MB

   Later page

   Phone 5.04 MB

   Laptop 4.90 MB

• New Plymouth District Council’s own files

  This website

  13.00 MB88%

• Google Tag Manager

  Tag manager

  0.53 MB4%

• New Relic

  Utility

  0.03 MB0%

• Google Analytics

  Analytics

  0.02 MB0%

• Unknown source

  1.16 MB8%

• Images

  12.88 MB

• Scripts

  1.50 MB

• Fonts

  0.19 MB

• Other

  0.11 MB

• Styles

  0.07 MB

1. Image · New Plymouth District Council

   cb-member-paul-lobb-and-kathy-lobb-matekai-park-oct-2026-1200x627.png

   Homepage

   5.09 MB

2. Image · New Plymouth District Council

   civic-centre-2023-1200x627.png

   Homepage

   3.11 MB

3. Image · New Plymouth District Council

   how-npdc-spends-each-dollar-2026-27.jpg

   Rates

   2.07 MB

4. Image · New Plymouth District Council

   rtb_1920x1080.png

   Homepage

   1.41 MB

5. Image · New Plymouth District Council

   front-counter-reception-2018-mark-dwyer-3.jpg

   Contact

   1.09 MB

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 19 images to the size screens show them

   Homepage and 3 more · New Plymouth District Council

   Homepage, Rubbish and recycling, Rates, Contact

   Saves most on the homepage

   up to 7.84 MB

2. Choice

   Esri ArcGIS (Utility): you choose whether it loads

   Contact · Esri ArcGIS

   Saves most on the Contact page

   2.27 MB

3. Choice

   YouTube (Video): you choose whether it loads

   Contact · YouTube Phone

   Saves most on the Contact page

   0.94 MB

4. Fix

   Compress 15 of your own text files

   Every page · New Plymouth District Council

   Saves this on every page

   at least 0.15 MB

5. Fix

   Compress 8 images that are already the right size

   Every page · New Plymouth District Council

   Saves this on every page

   up to 0.11 MB

6. Fix

   Cut 6 fonts down to the characters used

   Every page · New Plymouth District Council

   Saves this on every page

   up to 0.08 MB

If this website had 100,000 page views a year, they would cause about 57 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.

A grade C badge needs an average page view of 1.41 MB or less. New Plymouth District Council’s is 6.29 MB.