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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

countrylife.ie

Shop | Tirlán CountryLife

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

130 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

464 ms

countrylife.ie screenshot

About Website

Visit countrylife.ie now to see the best up-to-date Country Life content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about countrylife.ie

Online garden centre, pet store, farm and rural supplies from CountryLife, part of Tirlán. Shop online for nationwide delivery or click and reserve in store

Visit countrylife.ie

Key Findings

We analyzed Countrylife.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 130 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

countrylife.ie performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

countrylife.ie

130 ms

countrylife.ie

465 ms

www.countrylife.ie

422 ms

shop

330 ms

gtm.js

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Countrylife.ie, 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (870 ms) belongs to the original domain Countrylife.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Countrylife.ie main page is 3.4 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 66.9 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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 11.1 kB, which is 13% 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 66.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 578 B

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Country Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 177 B

  • Original 61.4 kB
  • After minification 61.4 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (47%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Country Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

countrylife.ie

countrylife.ie

130 ms

countrylife.ie

countrylife.ie

465 ms

www.countrylife.ie

www.countrylife.ie

422 ms

shop

shop

330 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

59 ms

agriaddonsmartedit.css

agriaddonsmartedit.css

56 ms

plugins.min.css

plugins.min.css

51 ms

agri_glanbia.min.css

agri_glanbia.min.css

30 ms

countrylife.min.css

countrylife.min.css

27 ms

combined_1.js

combined_1.js

58 ms

analyticsmediator.js

analyticsmediator.js

57 ms

css2

css2

43 ms

scarab-v2.js

scarab-v2.js

73 ms

logo

logo

352 ms

CountryLife-logo.svg

CountryLife-logo.svg

34 ms

icon-your-cart.png

icon-your-cart.png

41 ms

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55 ms

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1.svg

50 ms

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192 ms

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43 ms

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64 ms

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99 ms

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178 ms

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99 ms

296 ms

wploader.js

wploader.js

77 ms

footer-menu.min.js

footer-menu.min.js

57 ms

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483 ms

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510 ms

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549 ms

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184 ms

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536 ms

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485 ms

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382 ms

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409 ms

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444 ms

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465 ms

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509 ms

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506 ms

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527 ms

realex.png

realex.png

519 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

496 ms

combined.js

combined.js

545 ms

glanbia.min.js

glanbia.min.js

524 ms

loadAgriSmartEditScripts.js

loadAgriSmartEditScripts.js

534 ms

main-menu.min.js

main-menu.min.js

540 ms

navigation.min.js

navigation.min.js

537 ms

jquery.dateFormat.min.js

jquery.dateFormat.min.js

167 ms

jszip.min.js

jszip.min.js

171 ms

jszip-utils.min.js

jszip-utils.min.js

180 ms

homepage.min.js

homepage.min.js

605 ms

countrylife

countrylife

166 ms

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Best-Home-Garden-eCommerce-Award-v-4.png

606 ms

wpes5.js

wpes5.js

112 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

471 ms

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870 ms

mercury-sprite.png

mercury-sprite.png

30 ms

feefo-widget.js

feefo-widget.js

42 ms

spinner.gif

spinner.gif

31 ms

main.js

main.js

15 ms

34 ms

Accessibility Review

countrylife.ie accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

countrylife.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

countrylife.ie SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Countrylife.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 Countrylife.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

countrylife.ie

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