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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 73% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

amp.independent.ie

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Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

975 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Amp.independent.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

amp.independent.ie performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value59,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value75.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

amp.independent.ie

54 ms

www.independent.ie

271 ms

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325 ms

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41 ms

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371 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Amp.independent.ie, 57% (27 requests) were made to Independent.ie and 9% (4 requests) were made to Sdk.privacy-center.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.jsdelivr.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 431.8 kB (53%)

Content Size

819.6 kB

After Optimization

387.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Amp.independent.ie main page is 819.6 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. 80% 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. HTML takes 446.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 398.9 kB

  • Original 446.1 kB
  • After minification 297.5 kB
  • After compression 47.2 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 148.6 kB, which is 33% 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 398.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 298.5 kB
  • After minification 293.3 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. Amp Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 43.5 kB
  • After minification 43.5 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 27.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 31.6 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. Amp.independent.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (46%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Amp Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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54 ms

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271 ms

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325 ms

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551 ms

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512 ms

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Accessibility Review

amp.independent.ie accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role] values are not valid

Best Practices

amp.independent.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

amp.independent.ie SEO score

92

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 Amp.independent.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 Amp.independent.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

amp.independent.ie

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