Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

goldcore.ie

Buy Gold Ireland | Silver & Gold Bullion | Storage or Delivery - GoldCore

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

766 ms

goldcore.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Gold Core content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about goldcore.ie

Buy Gold or Silver Bullion Coins, Bars in Ireland. Allocated Storage or Deliver Irish Gold bullion by post. Established dealer with 1 Billion in sales, 15,000 clients.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Goldcore.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

goldcore.ie performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,010 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

goldcore.ie

16 ms

goldcore.ie

412 ms

www.goldcore.ie

790 ms

gtm.js

121 ms

js

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Goldcore.ie, 80% (110 requests) were made to Dr10e8ob3he67.cloudfront.net and 7% (9 requests) were made to News.goldcore.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) relates to the external source News.goldcore.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 468.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Goldcore.ie main page is 4.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 99.8 kB

  • Original 115.5 kB
  • After minification 91.7 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 23.8 kB, which is 21% 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 99.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 356.2 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Gold Core images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 212.9 kB
  • After minification 212.9 kB
  • After compression 201.2 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.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 86.5 kB
  • After compression 85.5 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. Goldcore.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (48%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

64

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gold Core. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

goldcore.ie accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

goldcore.ie best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

goldcore.ie SEO score

91

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

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 Goldcore.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 Goldcore.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 Gold Core. 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: