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Western Bay of Plenty District Council

westernbay.govt.nz

Measured by our bot, 20 to 21 October

In October 2026, an average page view on Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s website weighed 2.34 MB: 10th of 19 New Zealand councils we scored.

Gradei

Grade E

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

Hefty.

2.34 MBAn average page viewi

Range this month: 2.27 to 2.36 MBi

Heaviest page: Rubbish and recycling, 3.47 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 20262.34 MB

First measured October 2026.

Among local government

Rank, lightest firsti

10th of 19

Phone and laptopi

Homepage, first page

The five pages

First pageiLater pagei

  1. Homepage

    /

    First page

    Phone 3.54 MB

    Laptop 3.90 MB

    Later page

    Phone 2.44 MB

    Laptop 2.09 MB

  2. Rubbish and recycling

    /property-rates-and-building/rubbish-and-recycling

    First page

    Phone Not measured: the website turned our bot away

    Laptop 3.96 MB

    Later page

    Phone Not measured: the website turned our bot away

    Laptop 2.01 MB

  3. Rates

    /property-rates-and-building

    First page

    Phone Not measured: the website turned our bot away

    Laptop 1.92 MB

    Later page

    Phone Not measured: the website turned our bot away

    Laptop 0.02 MB

  4. Building consents

    /property-rates-and-building/building-consents

    First page

    Phone 2.07 MB

    Laptop 1.95 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.50 MB

    Laptop 0.04 MB

  5. Contact

    /council/contact-us

    First page

    Phone 2.50 MB

    Laptop 2.49 MB

    Later page

    Phone 0.57 MB

    Laptop 0.57 MB

Whose weight it is

Homepage, first page on a phone, 3.54 MB

Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s own filesi2.55 MB72%

Other companies’ filesi0.31 MB9%

What it is made ofi

Homepage, first page on a phone, 3.54 MB

The heaviest files

Across the pages we measured

  1. Image · Western Bay of Plenty District Council

    Katikati Youth Block Party.png

    Homepage

    0.63 MB

  2. Image · Western Bay of Plenty District Council

    800 x 500 Western Bay Image Final.jpg

    Rubbish and recycling

    0.59 MB

  3. Script · YouTube

    base.js (/s/player/67288f35/player_embed_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js)

    Rubbish and recycling

    0.47 MB

  4. Script · YouTube

    base.js (/s/player/ec2cfa4d/player_embed_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js)

    Rubbish and recycling

    0.47 MB

  5. Image · Western Bay of Plenty District Council

    Shocktober.png

    Homepage

    0.36 MB

We found 7 savings. Here are the 6 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

    Resize and compress 8 images to the size screens show them

    Every page · Western Bay of Plenty District Council

    Saves this on every page

    at least 0.66 MB

  2. Fix

    Compress 9 images that are already the right size

    Homepage and 1 more · Western Bay of Plenty District Council Phone

    Homepage, Contact

    Saves most on the homepage

    at least 0.59 MB

  3. Fix

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

    Every page · Western Bay of Plenty District Council

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.32 MB

  4. Choice

    Google Maps: you choose whether it loads

    Every page · Google Maps

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.12 MB

  5. Choice

    Check every marketing tag still earns its place: 1 company

    Building consents and 3 more · Facebook

    Building consents, Contact, Rubbish and recycling, Rates

    Saves most on the Building consents page

    up to 0.07 MB

  6. Fix

    Cut 1 font down to the characters used

    Every page · Western Bay of Plenty District Council

    Saves this on every page

    up to 0.07 MB

Carboni

If this website had 100,000 page views a year, they would cause about 21 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 234 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. Western Bay of Plenty District Council’s is 2.34 MB.

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