Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

engineersireland.ie

Engineers Ireland

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

287 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

440 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineersireland.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 287 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

engineersireland.ie performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.1 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineersireland.ie

287 ms

www.engineersireland.ie

416 ms

www.engineersireland.ie

425 ms

Professionals

1352 ms

gtm.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Engineersireland.ie, 7% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (7 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Engineersireland.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Engineersireland.ie main page is 2.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 209.0 kB

  • Original 326.4 kB
  • After minification 290.1 kB
  • After compression 117.5 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 36.3 kB, which is 11% 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 209.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Engineers Ireland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 220.1 kB
  • After minification 220.0 kB
  • After compression 205.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 63.3 kB
  • After compression 61.5 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. Engineersireland.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (37%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

53

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineers Ireland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

engineersireland.ie accessibility score

86

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

engineersireland.ie best practices score

50

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

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

engineersireland.ie SEO score

76

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

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Engineers Ireland. 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: