Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

ricorso.net

Ricorso: A Knowledge of Irish Literature

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

436 ms

Resources Loaded

898 ms

Page Rendered

82 ms

About Website

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Ricorso is a large dataset of information about Irish writers and their works arranged in the form of a bio-bibliographical dictionary, with condensed biographies, lists of criticism and extracts from...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ricorso.net page load time and found that the first response time was 436 ms and then it took 980 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ricorso.net performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ricorso.net

436 ms

stylesheet.css

92 ms

Ricorso.jpg

182 ms

Archives1.jpg

184 ms

Dundalk600.jpg

368 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ricorso.net and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (436 ms) belongs to the original domain Ricorso.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

105.5 kB

After Optimization

98.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Ricorso.net main page is 105.5 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 100.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 599 B, which is 12% 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 3.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 100.0 kB
  • After minification 96.6 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. Ricorso images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 95 B

  • Original 431 B
  • After minification 431 B
  • After compression 336 B

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. Ricorso.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ricorso. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

ricorso.net accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ricorso.net 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

ricorso.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ricorso.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Ricorso.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ricorso. 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: