Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com

The Irish Times Demo Mar 13. 2024

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

125 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

153 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 125 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.314

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irishtimesdemo

125 ms

9

124 ms

386 ms

swfobject.js

80 ms

swfmacmousewheel2.js

735 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com, 29% (2 requests) were made to E-pages.dk and 14% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (735 ms) relates to the external source E-pages.dk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.6 kB (40%)

Content Size

49.2 kB

After Optimization

29.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com main page is 49.2 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 30.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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 18.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 923 B

  • Original 18.4 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digitaledition Demo Irish Times. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com accessibility score

74

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com SEO score

85

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Digitaleditiondemo.irishtimes.com 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 Digitaledition Demo Irish Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: