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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

nch.ie

Home | National Concert Hall

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

282 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

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About Website

Visit nch.ie now to see the best up-to-date Nch content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about nch.ie

The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nch.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 282 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Nch.ie rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

nch.ie performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value30.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nch.ie

282 ms

nch.ie

399 ms

Online

95 ms

325 ms

bootstrap.css

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Nch.ie, 3% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (735 ms) belongs to the original domain Nch.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 699.2 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nch.ie main page is 2.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 44.1 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 10.2 kB, which is 18% 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 44.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Nch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 294.8 kB

  • Original 383.2 kB
  • After minification 295.4 kB
  • After compression 88.4 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 294.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 350.8 kB

  • Original 408.1 kB
  • After minification 311.1 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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. Nch.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 350.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (55%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nch.ie

nch.ie

282 ms

nch.ie

nch.ie

399 ms

Online

Online

95 ms

325 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

200 ms

global.css

global.css

364 ms

styleguide.css

styleguide.css

271 ms

browser_detect.js

browser_detect.js

268 ms

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372 ms

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269 ms

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300 ms

articleWidgets.js

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355 ms

TabularSearchResultsWidget.js

TabularSearchResultsWidget.js

362 ms

SearchFilterWidget.js

SearchFilterWidget.js

357 ms

LoginWidget.js

LoginWidget.js

392 ms

VideoWidget.js

VideoWidget.js

443 ms

CalendarWidget.js

CalendarWidget.js

445 ms

twitterWidgets.js

twitterWidgets.js

449 ms

googlePlusOneWidget.js

googlePlusOneWidget.js

448 ms

googleMapsWidget.js

googleMapsWidget.js

451 ms

facebookSocialWidgets.js

facebookSocialWidgets.js

486 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

17 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

715 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

631 ms

bootstrap-functions.js

bootstrap-functions.js

554 ms

NCH-White.png

NCH-White.png

99 ms

IH_England2.jpg

IH_England2.jpg

712 ms

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352 ms

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483 ms

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678 ms

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583 ms

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316 ms

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404 ms

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440 ms

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491 ms

Master-Card-icon.png

Master-Card-icon.png

526 ms

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vpas_logo.png

573 ms

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mastercard-securecode.png

582 ms

all.js

all.js

41 ms

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589 ms

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643 ms

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735 ms

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plusone.js

91 ms

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xd_arbiter.php

46 ms

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20 ms

ga.js

ga.js

71 ms

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74 ms

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12 ms

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55 ms

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ga-audiences

38 ms

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116 ms

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102 ms

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93 ms

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100 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

103 ms

global.css

global.css

94 ms

styleguide.css

styleguide.css

91 ms

calendarWidget.js

calendarWidget.js

95 ms

Accessibility Review

nch.ie accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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.

Best Practices

nch.ie best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nch.ie SEO score

75

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nch.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 Nch.ie main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

nch.ie

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