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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

addictionireland.ie

National Drug Advisory and Treatment Centre, DTCB, Drug Addition Ireland, Drug Prevention, Drug Treatment

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

330 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

71 ms

About Website

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The National Drug Advisory and Treatment Centre, now known as The Drug Treatment Centre Board (DTCB), was established in 1969 and is the longest established treatment service in the country. The DTCB-...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Addictionireland.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 330 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

addictionireland.ie performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

addictionireland.ie

330 ms

dtcb.ie

572 ms

default.asp

163 ms

website.css

129 ms

Javascript.js

272 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Addictionireland.ie, 92% (12 requests) were made to Dtcb.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (572 ms) relates to the external source Dtcb.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.2 kB (38%)

Content Size

93.3 kB

After Optimization

58.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Addictionireland.ie main page is 93.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 55.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 2.9 kB, which is 22% 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 10.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB

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. Addiction Ireland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 6.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Addictionireland.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Addiction Ireland. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

addictionireland.ie accessibility score

48

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.

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

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

addictionireland.ie best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

addictionireland.ie SEO score

58

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

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 Addictionireland.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 Addictionireland.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 description is not detected on the main page of Addiction Ireland. 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: