Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

greystonesguide.ie

The Greystones Guide | Your local guide to all things Greystones

Page Load Speed

23.1 sec in total

First Response

4.5 sec

Resources Loaded

15.4 sec

Page Rendered

3.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to greystonesguide.ie homepage info - get ready to check Greystones Guide best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about greystonesguide.ie

Your guide to everything Greystones! Keep up to date with all the local news in Greystones county Wicklow and the surrounding areas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greystonesguide.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 4.5 sec and then it took 18.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greystonesguide.ie performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,160 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.greystonesguide.ie

4522 ms

jquery.min.js

127 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

255 ms

rbtools.min.js

1519 ms

rs6.min.js

1703 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Greystonesguide.ie, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Greystonesguide.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 560.7 kB (63%)

Content Size

886.9 kB

After Optimization

326.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Greystonesguide.ie main page is 886.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 643.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 551.9 kB

  • Original 643.3 kB
  • After minification 643.1 kB
  • After compression 91.4 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 551.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 157.1 kB
  • After minification 157.1 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. Greystones Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 86.5 kB
  • After minification 86.5 kB
  • After compression 77.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (88%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Greystones Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greystonesguide.ie accessibility score

93

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

greystonesguide.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

greystonesguide.ie SEO score

84

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

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