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collegeroad.ie

Homepage - UCC-SU

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

486 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Collegeroad content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about collegeroad.ie

CollegeRoad.ie is the official website of the UCC Students' Union. CollegeRoad has information on student news and matters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegeroad.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegeroad.ie performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

collegeroad.ie

1020 ms

style.css

872 ms

app.css

190 ms

foundicons.css

303 ms

entypo.css

307 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Collegeroad.ie, 21% (14 requests) were made to Cdn.pubble.io and 9% (6 requests) were made to Pubble.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Collegeroad.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 870.1 kB (28%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Collegeroad.ie main page is 3.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 92.1 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 15.0 kB, which is 16% 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 80.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 218.9 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Collegeroad images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 326.2 kB

  • Original 496.3 kB
  • After minification 490.8 kB
  • After compression 170.2 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 326.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 244.4 kB

  • Original 270.9 kB
  • After minification 212.2 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. Collegeroad.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 244.4 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (27%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Collegeroad. 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 from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

collegeroad.ie

collegeroad.ie

1020 ms

style.css

style.css

872 ms

app.css

app.css

190 ms

foundicons.css

foundicons.css

303 ms

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entypo.css

307 ms

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51 ms

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55 ms

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40 ms

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QAInit.js

377 ms

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jquery.js

437 ms

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562 ms

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752 ms

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239 ms

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129 ms

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378 ms

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368 ms

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722 ms

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1439 ms

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936 ms

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557 ms

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500 ms

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653 ms

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672 ms

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780 ms

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829 ms

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861 ms

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893 ms

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950 ms

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1186 ms

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GrindsAdvert.jpg

2533 ms

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1184 ms

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societies.png

1184 ms

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radio.png

1189 ms

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1228 ms

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1232 ms

ga.js

ga.js

37 ms

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24 ms

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1503 ms

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1582 ms

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100 ms

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70 ms

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177 ms

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157 ms

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PQAB_style_v02.css

520 ms

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172 ms

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203 ms

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53 ms

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70 ms

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66 ms

underscore.js

underscore.js

35 ms

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backbone-min.js

36 ms

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49 ms

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136 ms

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413 ms

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36 ms

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35 ms

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43 ms

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47 ms

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540 ms

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115 ms

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social_foundicons.ttf

128 ms

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126 ms

SEO Factors

collegeroad.ie SEO score

0

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 Collegeroad.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 Collegeroad.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

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