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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

housedesign.ie

RIAI.ie (The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland)

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

836 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Housedesign content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about housedesign.ie

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) is the Regulatory and Support body for Architects in Ireland. Support services are also provided for Architectural Technologists.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housedesign.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housedesign.ie performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value82.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value85.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housedesign.ie

277 ms

www.riai.ie

367 ms

www.riai.ie

1010 ms

uc.js

38 ms

main.css

300 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Housedesign.ie, 92% (96 requests) were made to Riai.ie and 2% (2 requests) were made to Consent.cookiebot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Riai.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.1 MB (11%)

Content Size

28.8 MB

After Optimization

25.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Housedesign.ie main page is 28.8 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 28.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 294.5 kB

  • Original 324.2 kB
  • After minification 270.6 kB
  • After compression 29.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 53.5 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 294.5 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.6 MB

  • Original 28.0 MB
  • After minification 25.4 MB

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. Housedesign images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 173.9 kB

  • Original 428.6 kB
  • After minification 428.6 kB
  • After compression 254.7 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 173.9 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (11%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

85

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housedesign. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

housedesign.ie

housedesign.ie

277 ms

www.riai.ie

www.riai.ie

367 ms

www.riai.ie

www.riai.ie

1010 ms

uc.js

uc.js

38 ms

main.css

main.css

300 ms

jquery-3.6.3.min.js

jquery-3.6.3.min.js

15 ms

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manifest.js

186 ms

vendor.js

vendor.js

520 ms

main.js

main.js

627 ms

ee_harbor_forms_base.js

ee_harbor_forms_base.js

395 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

199 ms

api.js

api.js

176 ms

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1621 ms

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1618 ms

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1619 ms

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1981 ms

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1618 ms

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DMFA_Image.png

1805 ms

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Recognition.JPG

1623 ms

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riai-logo.svg

1622 ms

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1985 ms

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Hero1_2023_AD.jpg

1805 ms

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1986 ms

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1987 ms

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2000 ms

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1909 ms

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2097 ms

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Lyric1_lowres.jpg

2074 ms

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RIAI_-_EUmies_Award_Exhibition_614_396.png

2083 ms

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2172 ms

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2177 ms

Climate_Challenge_2030_Card.jpg

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2094 ms

SM_Card.jpg

SM_Card.jpg

2169 ms

840_RIAI_Stock_PROOF.jpg

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2184 ms

IE05%C2%A9Ste_Murray_2.jpg

IE05%C2%A9Ste_Murray_2.jpg

2382 ms

Sustainable_Residential_Development_Guidelines_Card_%281%29.jpg

Sustainable_Residential_Development_Guidelines_Card_%281%29.jpg

2191 ms

RIAI_-_EUmies_Award_Exhibition.png

RIAI_-_EUmies_Award_Exhibition.png

2740 ms

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2265 ms

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2270 ms

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2271 ms

GandonMedal_Card.png

GandonMedal_Card.png

2290 ms

UDG_Card_web.png

UDG_Card_web.png

2360 ms

HonoraryLecture_Card2023.png

HonoraryLecture_Card2023.png

2367 ms

Se%C3%A1n_Mahon_FRIAI.jpg

Se%C3%A1n_Mahon_FRIAI.jpg

2279 ms

AtlasTypewriter-Regular-Web.woff

AtlasTypewriter-Regular-Web.woff

2292 ms

recaptcha__en_gb.js

recaptcha__en_gb.js

42 ms

uc.js

uc.js

18 ms

js

js

47 ms

AtlasGrotesk-Thin-Web.woff

AtlasGrotesk-Thin-Web.woff

2231 ms

AtlasGrotesk-Light-Web.woff

AtlasGrotesk-Light-Web.woff

960 ms

AtlasGrotesk-Regular-Web.woff

AtlasGrotesk-Regular-Web.woff

857 ms

AtlasGrotesk-Medium-Web.woff

AtlasGrotesk-Medium-Web.woff

898 ms

riai.ttf

riai.ttf

899 ms

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46Greater_Galway_Charter_St_Nics_card.jpg

990 ms

EU_Mies_Award_2024_Logo_Card.jpg

EU_Mies_Award_2024_Logo_Card.jpg

990 ms

RIAI_Future_Award_2023_and_RIAI_Student_Awards_2023_Photo_Patrick_Bolger_card.jpg

RIAI_Future_Award_2023_and_RIAI_Student_Awards_2023_Photo_Patrick_Bolger_card.jpg

986 ms

RIAI_President_Charlotte_Sheridan_RIAI_Conference_2023_Photo_Patrick_Bolger_card.jpg

RIAI_President_Charlotte_Sheridan_RIAI_Conference_2023_Photo_Patrick_Bolger_card.jpg

892 ms

RIAI_Conference_2023.jpg

RIAI_Conference_2023.jpg

807 ms

SCSG_Card.jpg

SCSG_Card.jpg

835 ms

RIAI_Statement.png

RIAI_Statement.png

742 ms

RIAI_Pre-Budget_Submission.png

RIAI_Pre-Budget_Submission.png

673 ms

MicrosoftTeams-image.png

MicrosoftTeams-image.png

685 ms

2_Office_Building_St_Stephens_de_Blacam_and_Meagher_Architects_Peter_Cook.jpg

2_Office_Building_St_Stephens_de_Blacam_and_Meagher_Architects_Peter_Cook.jpg

685 ms

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Istanbul_Modern%2C_Photo_by_Cemal_Emden%2C_2023_%28Custom%29.jpg

852 ms

Awards_2023_Web_Card.jpg

Awards_2023_Web_Card.jpg

754 ms

International_Rugby_Experience_Niall_McLaughlin_Architects_PhotoNickKane.jpg

International_Rugby_Experience_Niall_McLaughlin_Architects_PhotoNickKane.jpg

678 ms

Town_Centre_Living_Card.png

Town_Centre_Living_Card.png

681 ms

RIAI_AOTI_Image_600x350.png

RIAI_AOTI_Image_600x350.png

671 ms

Ireland_at_Venice_2023_PhotoBySteMurray_card.jpg

Ireland_at_Venice_2023_PhotoBySteMurray_card.jpg

739 ms

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tile_fill_galway-sights-home_c_Galway_Tourism.jpeg

676 ms

1_Treetop_Walk_at_Avondale.jpg

1_Treetop_Walk_at_Avondale.jpg

785 ms

Frizz23_Card.png

Frizz23_Card.png

681 ms

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Safety_Design_Card4.png

676 ms

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Gender_Equity_Conference_Image_900x500.png

739 ms

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Screenshot_%28105%29.png

689 ms

PSDP_Card.jpg

PSDP_Card.jpg

669 ms

National_Housing_Conference.jpg

National_Housing_Conference.jpg

691 ms

RIAI_AOTI_CPD_Changing_the_Mindset_from_Granny_Flat.jpg

RIAI_AOTI_CPD_Changing_the_Mindset_from_Granny_Flat.jpg

671 ms

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Fire_Regulations_Image_900x500.png

670 ms

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DFMA_Case_Study_RKD_Architects.jpg

669 ms

CPD_on_Historic_Joinery_Image_600x350.png

CPD_on_Historic_Joinery_Image_600x350.png

689 ms

OMahony_Pike-Horgans_Quay-03.jpg

OMahony_Pike-Horgans_Quay-03.jpg

668 ms

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RestoringConcrete_Card.png

619 ms

OldStone_Conservation_Card.jpg

OldStone_Conservation_Card.jpg

584 ms

ADR_Card.png

ADR_Card.png

655 ms

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Potential_Stock_Image_600x350.png

619 ms

RIAICPD_PartM_Card.png

RIAICPD_PartM_Card.png

636 ms

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Promotional_image.png

644 ms

Kilmanagh_KK.jpg

Kilmanagh_KK.jpg

553 ms

BCAR_22_Card.png

BCAR_22_Card.png

547 ms

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Screenshot_%2849%29-optimised.jpg

613 ms

HR_Update_Image_600x350.png

HR_Update_Image_600x350.png

617 ms

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Hot_Limes_NHLs_Historic_Mortars_Card2.png

636 ms

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NEW_CPD_-_Colette_Lagan%2C_Nolans_Group_Conservation__Restoration-optimised.jpg

606 ms

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00GG-K-GDA-Aerial1950.png

606 ms

CPD_Specification.jpg

CPD_Specification.jpg

667 ms

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MeetTheCraftsmen2022_1_Card.png

653 ms

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Card_327.png

674 ms

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Meet_the_Craftsman_Alexander_Downes_card.png

595 ms

ER_Card22.jpg

ER_Card22.jpg

594 ms

Home_1.jpg

Home_1.jpg

600 ms

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RIAI_Membership_Certificates_660.jpg

647 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

652 ms

Accessibility Review

housedesign.ie accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

SEO Factors

housedesign.ie SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Housedesign.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Housedesign.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

housedesign.ie

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Housedesign. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: