Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

daft.ie

Search Ireland's No. 1 Property Website | Daft.ie

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

205 ms

daft.ie screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Daft.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

daft.ie performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value35,960 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

daft.ie

187 ms

www.daft.ie

400 ms

main.css

547 ms

css

24 ms

vwo.js

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Daft.ie, 21% (17 requests) were made to B.dmlimg.com and 10% (8 requests) were made to C0.dmstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (655 ms) relates to the external source C0.dmstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Daft.ie main page is 2.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 962.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 125.4 kB

  • Original 142.5 kB
  • After minification 100.4 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 42.0 kB, which is 30% 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 125.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 630.9 kB
  • After minification 618.6 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. Daft images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 632.6 kB

  • Original 962.2 kB
  • After minification 961.9 kB
  • After compression 329.6 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 632.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 272.4 kB

  • Original 330.8 kB
  • After minification 329.1 kB
  • After compression 58.4 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. Daft.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 272.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (47%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Daft. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

daft.ie accessibility score

84

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Buttons do not have an accessible 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

daft.ie best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

daft.ie SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Daft.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 Daft.ie 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 Daft. 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: