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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 55

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

submit.independent.ie

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Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

409 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Submit.independent.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 409 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

submit.independent.ie performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value20.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value39.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

submit.independent.ie

409 ms

screen.min.css

27 ms

widgets.min.css

178 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

104 ms

herbie.css

173 ms

Our browser made a total of 215 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Submit.independent.ie, 9% (19 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com and 8% (18 requests) were made to Independent.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (717 ms) relates to the external source Us.ads.justpremium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (61%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

763.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Submit.independent.ie main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 163.7 kB

  • Original 224.3 kB
  • After minification 222.8 kB
  • After compression 60.6 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. 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 163.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 236.0 kB
  • After minification 193.1 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. Obviously, Submit Independent needs image optimization as it can save up to 42.9 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 798.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 466.4 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 798.4 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 195.1 kB

  • Original 238.7 kB
  • After minification 236.9 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Submit.independent.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 195.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 119 (62%)

Requests Now

193

After Optimization

74

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 193 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Submit Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

submit.independent.ie accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

submit.independent.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

submit.independent.ie SEO score

55

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

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 Submit.independent.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 Submit.independent.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 Submit Independent. 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: