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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

irishcentral.com

IrishCentral - Your daily source for everything Irish | IrishCentral.com

Page Load Speed

931 ms in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

632 ms

Page Rendered

96 ms

About Website

Visit irishcentral.com now to see the best up-to-date Irish Central content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about irishcentral.com

Read and share the latest Irish news, including politics, community, business, travel, Irish roots, culture, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irishcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 728 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irishcentral.com performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,930 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irishcentral.com

203 ms

www.irishcentral.com

358 ms

uc.js

63 ms

js

76 ms

fbevents.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Irishcentral.com, 11% (1 request) were made to Consent.cookiebot.com and 11% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (358 ms) belongs to the original domain Irishcentral.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.9 kB (52%)

Content Size

546.4 kB

After Optimization

262.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Irishcentral.com main page is 546.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 329.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 274.8 kB

  • Original 329.5 kB
  • After minification 316.5 kB
  • After compression 54.7 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 274.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 74.1 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. Irish Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 142.9 kB
  • After minification 142.9 kB
  • After compression 133.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (43%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irish Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

irishcentral.com accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

irishcentral.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

irishcentral.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Irishcentral.com 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 Irishcentral.com 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 Irish Central. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: