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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

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Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

854 ms

Page Rendered

76 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Subscribe.independent.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 930 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

subscribe.independent.ie performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,970 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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155 ms

flip-pay-redesign.css

28 ms

146bdba86e94dd27e82e6c56390db420.css

154 ms

global.css

164 ms

html-content.js

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Subscribe.independent.ie, 10% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Sdk.privacy-center.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (450 ms) relates to the external source Independent.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.4 kB (33%)

Content Size

109.5 kB

After Optimization

73.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Subscribe.independent.ie main page is 109.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 61.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 13.3 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 9.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 7.5 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 61.1 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Subscribe.independent.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (61%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Subscribe Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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155 ms

flip-pay-redesign.css

flip-pay-redesign.css

28 ms

146bdba86e94dd27e82e6c56390db420.css

146bdba86e94dd27e82e6c56390db420.css

154 ms

global.css

global.css

164 ms

html-content.js

html-content.js

138 ms

data-layer-script.js

data-layer-script.js

127 ms

iframeResizer.min.js

iframeResizer.min.js

35 ms

flippay-main.js

flippay-main.js

450 ms

main.js

main.js

134 ms

include.js

include.js

49 ms

toggle.js

toggle.js

69 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

146 ms

loader.js

loader.js

183 ms

independent-logo.svg

independent-logo.svg

110 ms

footer.html

footer.html

127 ms

22f4a837b1b7d521250e714708ba85f6.ttf

22f4a837b1b7d521250e714708ba85f6.ttf

191 ms

privacy-button.html

privacy-button.html

49 ms

web-vitals.iife.js

web-vitals.iife.js

91 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

90 ms

sdk.2b21b123cd588a1038cfaf45dfee8f205a1b7259.js

sdk.2b21b123cd588a1038cfaf45dfee8f205a1b7259.js

7 ms

web-vitals.iife.js

web-vitals.iife.js

40 ms

Accessibility Review

subscribe.independent.ie accessibility score

59

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

subscribe.independent.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

subscribe.independent.ie SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Subscribe.independent.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 Subscribe.independent.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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Subscribe Independent. 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: