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acropolis.ie

Courses in Philosophy and Practical Psychology - Dublin & Cork

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

398 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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School of Philosophy in the classical tradition. Non-profit education in philosophy for living and practical psychology. The next course is starting on Thursday, 1st May 2025 in Dublin. Improve oursel...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acropolis.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 398 ms and then it took 6.7 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

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Network Requests Diagram

acropolis.ie

398 ms

www.acropolis.ie

693 ms

wpo-minify-header-f497b7e9.min.css

411 ms

wpo-minify-header-1d42231c.min.js

464 ms

js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Acropolis.ie, 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Acropolis.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Acropolis.ie main page is 4.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 175.2 kB

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 188.5 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. 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 175.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Acropolis images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 385.2 kB
  • After minification 385.2 kB
  • After compression 345.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 138.4 kB
  • After minification 138.4 kB
  • After compression 134.6 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. Acropolis.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (26%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Acropolis. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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