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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

consumerassociation.ie

Consumers' Association of Ireland | Protecting Irish Consumers

Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

303 ms

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About Website

Welcome to consumerassociation.ie homepage info - get ready to check Consumer Association best content right away, or after learning these important things about consumerassociation.ie

An independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, registered with charitable status and working on behalf of Irish consumers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Consumerassociation.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

consumerassociation.ie performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.617

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecai.ie

2345 ms

style.css

178 ms

thecai.ie

1158 ms

styles.css

178 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Consumerassociation.ie, 16% (16 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Thecai.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (49%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Consumerassociation.ie main page is 4.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 119.3 kB

  • Original 142.7 kB
  • After minification 139.8 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 119.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 102.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Consumer Association images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 946.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 273.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 946.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 878.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 893.7 kB
  • After compression 133.7 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. Consumerassociation.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 878.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (67%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Consumer Association. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecai.ie

thecai.ie

2345 ms

style.css

style.css

178 ms

thecai.ie

thecai.ie

1158 ms

styles.css

styles.css

178 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

ctf-styles.min.css

264 ms

style_all.css

style_all.css

225 ms

style_light.css

style_light.css

229 ms

sidebar-login.css

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265 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

woocommerce-layout.css

398 ms

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woocommerce.css

492 ms

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527 ms

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1395 ms

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rgs.css

487 ms

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710 ms

prettyPhoto.css

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583 ms

responsive.css

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793 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

766 ms

ascend.css

ascend.css

802 ms

js_composer.css

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993 ms

jquery.js

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954 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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885 ms

scrollTo.js

scrollTo.js

889 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

976 ms

mailchimp.js

mailchimp.js

977 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

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1043 ms

sidebar-login.min.js

sidebar-login.min.js

1065 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

1065 ms

woocommerce-add-to-cart.js

woocommerce-add-to-cart.js

1079 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

1134 ms

easy_table_creator.js

easy_table_creator.js

1153 ms

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

jquery.tablesorter.min.js

1154 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

1167 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

1079 ms

core.min.js

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592 ms

widget.min.js

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597 ms

position.min.js

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599 ms

menu.min.js

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612 ms

autocomplete.min.js

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674 ms

wpss-search-suggest.js

wpss-search-suggest.js

680 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

686 ms

functions.js

functions.js

688 ms

woocommerce.min.js

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707 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

877 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

877 ms

ywcnp_free_frontend.min.js

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878 ms

jquery.matchHeight.js

jquery.matchHeight.js

878 ms

front.js

front.js

877 ms

prettyPhoto.js

prettyPhoto.js

820 ms

superfish.js

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801 ms

init.js

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1605 ms

nectar-slider.js

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1142 ms

flickity.min.js

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878 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

685 ms

wp-embed.min.js

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711 ms

js_composer_front.js

js_composer_front.js

727 ms

ctf-scripts.min.js

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840 ms

nsh7yig.js

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125 ms

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284 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

51 ms

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cailogo.png

693 ms

product-tests-bg.jpg

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619 ms

phone-icon.png

phone-icon.png

224 ms

donate-bg.jpg

donate-bg.jpg

704 ms

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card-icon.png

327 ms

register-bg.jpg

register-bg.jpg

633 ms

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mail-icon.png

327 ms

latest_issue_bg.png

latest_issue_bg.png

883 ms

CONSUMER-CHOICE-December-2023-January-2024-COVER.jpg

CONSUMER-CHOICE-December-2023-January-2024-COVER.jpg

1239 ms

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A-Celebration-at-the-CAI-page-001.jpg

802 ms

thecai.ie

thecai.ie

2788 ms

media-news-header-bg.png

media-news-header-bg.png

2199 ms

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Regular-webfont.woff

400 ms

OpenSans-Light-webfont.woff

OpenSans-Light-webfont.woff

409 ms

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OpenSans-Semibold-webfont.woff

409 ms

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OpenSansBold-webfont.woff

578 ms

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833 ms

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500 ms

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126 ms

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6 ms

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82 ms

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36 ms

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17 ms

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82 ms

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124 ms

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119 ms

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14 ms

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tweets_json.php

1897 ms

thecai.ie

thecai.ie

2167 ms

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diagonal_line.png

94 ms

slider-energy.jpg

slider-energy.jpg

179 ms

header2.png

header2.png

870 ms

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358 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

95 ms

Accessibility Review

consumerassociation.ie accessibility score

71

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

consumerassociation.ie 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

consumerassociation.ie SEO score

86

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Consumerassociation.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 Consumerassociation.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

consumerassociation.ie

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