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passportcard.dfa.ie

Passport Card - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

269 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

175 ms

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About Website

Visit passportcard.dfa.ie now to see the best up-to-date Passport Card Dfa content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about passportcard.dfa.ie

The Irish Passport Card, can be used by Irish citizens for travel within the European Union and the European Economic Area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Passportcard.dfa.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 269 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

passportcard.dfa.ie performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

passportcard.dfa.ie

269 ms

passportcard.dfa.ie

484 ms

design.css

260 ms

component.css

348 ms

css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Passportcard.dfa.ie, 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (733 ms) belongs to the original domain Passportcard.dfa.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.9 kB (68%)

Content Size

284.0 kB

After Optimization

92.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Passportcard.dfa.ie main page is 284.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 175.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 6.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 12.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 469 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 890 B

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Passport Card Dfa needs image optimization as it can save up to 469 B or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 103.2 kB

  • Original 175.1 kB
  • After minification 166.9 kB
  • After compression 71.9 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 103.2 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 75.7 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 12.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Passportcard.dfa.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (74%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Passport Card Dfa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Passportcard.dfa.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Passportcard.dfa.ie main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Passport Card Dfa. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: