Selwyn 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

1. C
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3. D
4. D
5. E
6. E
7. E
8. E
9. E
10. E
11. F
12. F
13. F
14. F
15. F
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18. G
19. G

LightestHeaviest

• Selwyn District Council

• Phone

  8.31 MB

• Laptop

  7.03 MB

First pageiLater pagei

1. Homepage

   /

   Video: 0.09 MB, counted in the weight.

   First page

   Phone 8.31 MB

   Laptop 7.03 MB

   Later page

   Phone 4.74 MB

   Laptop 4.94 MB

2. Rubbish and recycling

   /services/rubbish-recycling-And-organics

   First page

   Phone 6.08 MB

   Laptop 6.20 MB

   Later page

   Phone 4.45 MB

   Laptop 4.24 MB

3. Rates

   /services/rates

   First page

   Phone 5.49 MB

   Laptop 5.41 MB

   Later page

   Phone 3.61 MB

   Laptop 3.77 MB

4. Building consents

   /property-And-building/building

   First page

   Phone 9.39 MB

   Laptop 9.22 MB

   Later page

   Phone 7.35 MB

   Laptop 7.38 MB

5. Contact

   /your-council/contact-us

   First page

   Phone 3.37 MB

   Laptop 4.24 MB

   Later page

   Phone 2.20 MB

   Laptop 2.19 MB

• Selwyn District Council’s own files

  This website

  4.92 MB60%

• YouTube

  Video

  0.94 MB12%

• Google Tag Manager

  Tag manager

  0.69 MB9%

• Facebook

  Advertising and social

  0.67 MB8%

• 7 more companies

  Google/Doubleclick Ads, Advertising and social, 0.25 MB
  Google Fonts, Hosting and delivery, 0.17 MB
  Mailchimp, Advertising and social, 0.15 MB
  Cloudflare CDN, Hosting and delivery, 0.14 MB
  Other Google APIs/SDKs, Utility, 0.13 MB
  JSDelivr CDN, Hosting and delivery, 0.01 MB
  Google CDN, Hosting and delivery, 0.01 MB

  0.87 MB11%

• Unknown source

  0.07 MB1%

• Images

  4.68 MB

• Scripts

  2.92 MB

• Fonts

  0.28 MB

• Styles

  0.21 MB

• Other

  0.07 MB

1. Image · Selwyn District Council

   Building-site-people-with-car-and-laptop.jpg

   Building consents

   7.25 MB

2. Image · Selwyn District Council

   Truck-making-a-collection-on-a-street.jpg

   Rubbish and recycling

   4.04 MB

3. Image · Selwyn District Council

   Shands.jpg

   Rates

   3.45 MB

4. Image · Selwyn District Council

   TaiTapu.png

   Homepage

   1.16 MB

5. Image · Selwyn District Council

   Designer-4.png

   Homepage

   0.50 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 7 images to the size screens show them

   Homepage · Selwyn District Council

   Saves most on the homepage

   at least 1.24 MB

2. Fix

   Next pages download what the homepage already did

   Every page · Selwyn District Council

   Saves this on every page

   up to 1.08 MB

3. Choice

   Check every marketing tag still earns its place: 3 companies

   Every page · Facebook, Google/Doubleclick Ads, Mailchimp

   Saves this on every page

   up to 0.81 MB

4. Choice

   YouTube (Video): you choose whether it loads

   Homepage · YouTube Laptop

   Saves most on the homepage

   0.75 MB

5. Choice

   Google CDN: you choose whether it loads

   Every page · Google CDN

   Saves this on every page

   up to 0.40 MB

6. Fix

   Compress 3 images that are already the right size

   Homepage · Selwyn District Council

   Saves most on the homepage

   at least 0.31 MB

If this website had 100,000 page views a year, they would cause about 54 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. Selwyn District Council’s is 5.98 MB.