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Visit independent.ieWe analyzed Independent.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 147.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 241 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Independent.ie, 5% (11 requests) were made to Ad.360yield.com and 5% (11 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.5 sec) relates to the external source Cdn-03.independent.ie.
Page size can be reduced by 5.0 MB (45%)
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In fact, the total size of Independent.ie main page is 11.1 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 235.7 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 235.7 kB or 80% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 313.8 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. Independent images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 3.6 MB
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 3.6 MB or 66% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 839.4 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. Independent.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 839.4 kB or 82% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 149 (69%)
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The browser has sent 215 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 79 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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independent.ie accessibility score
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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.
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Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.
[role] values are not valid
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
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Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio
Serves images with low resolution
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Page has valid source maps
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Crawling and Indexing
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Links are not crawlable
Mobile Friendly
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Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 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 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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 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: