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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

publicpolicy.ie

Public Policy – Public Policy @ UCD Geary

Page Load Speed

10.1 sec in total

First Response

799 ms

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

526 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Publicpolicy.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 799 ms and then it took 9.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

publicpolicy.ie performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.32

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

publicpolicy.ie

799 ms

www.publicpolicy.ie

2634 ms

css

33 ms

billboard.min.css

240 ms

main.css

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 209 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (203 requests) were addressed to the original Publicpolicy.ie, 1% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Publicpolicy.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (21%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Publicpolicy.ie main page is 6.3 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 5.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 235.2 kB

  • Original 263.6 kB
  • After minification 203.4 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 60.3 kB, which is 23% 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 235.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 280.4 kB

  • Original 5.0 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Public Policy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 491.5 kB

  • Original 707.1 kB
  • After minification 670.9 kB
  • After compression 215.6 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 491.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 287.5 kB

  • Original 336.6 kB
  • After minification 272.2 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. Publicpolicy.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (27%)

Requests Now

204

After Optimization

148

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 204 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Public Policy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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publicpolicy.ie

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Accessibility Review

publicpolicy.ie accessibility score

81

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

publicpolicy.ie best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

publicpolicy.ie SEO score

79

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Publicpolicy.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 Publicpolicy.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

publicpolicy.ie

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