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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

fingal.ie

Fingal County Council - The Place to Live, Work, Visit and Do Business.

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

573 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

376 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fingal.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 573 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fingal.ie performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fingal.ie

573 ms

css

24 ms

bootstrap.css

740 ms

styles.css

724 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

507 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Fingal.ie, 16% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (778 ms) belongs to the original domain Fingal.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 616.5 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

931.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fingal.ie main page is 1.5 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. Images take 653.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 54.2 kB

  • Original 75.0 kB
  • After minification 66.8 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 8.2 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 54.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 653.1 kB
  • After minification 616.4 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. Fingal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 346.7 kB

  • Original 610.9 kB
  • After minification 583.3 kB
  • After compression 264.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 346.7 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 178.8 kB

  • Original 209.1 kB
  • After minification 157.7 kB
  • After compression 30.2 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. Fingal.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (54%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fingal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fingal.ie

fingal.ie

573 ms

css

css

24 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

740 ms

styles.css

styles.css

724 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

507 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

233 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

644 ms

main.js

main.js

646 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

element.js

element.js

56 ms

ga.js

ga.js

57 ms

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278 ms

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302 ms

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202 ms

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778 ms

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339 ms

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454 ms

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widgets.js

162 ms

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47 ms

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79 ms

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78 ms

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78 ms

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79 ms

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79 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

39 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

95 ms

main.js

main.js

104 ms

getFeed.ashx

getFeed.ashx

147 ms

boost

boost

36 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

67 ms

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133 ms

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158 ms

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36 ms

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38 ms

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82 ms

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190 ms

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45 ms

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90 ms

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69 ms

Accessibility Review

fingal.ie accessibility score

91

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

fingal.ie best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

fingal.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

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 Fingal.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 Fingal.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

fingal.ie

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