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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

dbs.ie

Dublin Business School - Independent College in Ireland | DBS

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

133 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

472 ms

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About Website

Visit dbs.ie now to see the best up-to-date DBS content for India and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about dbs.ie

Dublin Business School is the largest independent third-level college in Ireland, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as professional diplomas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dbs.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 133 ms 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

dbs.ie performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,890 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dbs.ie

133 ms

dbs.ie

448 ms

www.dbs.ie

2197 ms

global.min.css

37 ms

css

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Dbs.ie, 5% (4 requests) were made to Unpkg.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Dbs.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 185.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dbs.ie main page is 2.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 102.1 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 66.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 52.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. DBS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 59.3 kB

  • Original 203.0 kB
  • After minification 203.0 kB
  • After compression 143.7 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 59.3 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 21.9 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. Dbs.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (61%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DBS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dbs.ie

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133 ms

dbs.ie

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448 ms

www.dbs.ie

www.dbs.ie

2197 ms

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37 ms

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49 ms

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34 ms

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674 ms

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206 ms

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42 ms

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82 ms

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48 ms

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48 ms

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49 ms

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21 ms

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102 ms

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208 ms

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96 ms

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62 ms

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86 ms

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47 ms

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44 ms

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68 ms

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132 ms

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15 ms

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456 ms

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330 ms

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330 ms

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115 ms

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455 ms

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582 ms

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374 ms

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374 ms

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373 ms

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394 ms

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394 ms

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392 ms

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657 ms

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450 ms

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849 ms

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980 ms

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645 ms

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285 ms

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285 ms

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262 ms

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319 ms

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445 ms

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114 ms

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115 ms

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collect

72 ms

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466 ms

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59 ms

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63 ms

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Responsive.min.css

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15 ms

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16 ms

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17 ms

Accessibility Review

dbs.ie accessibility score

87

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.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

dbs.ie best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dbs.ie SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dbs.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 Dbs.ie main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

dbs.ie

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