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Visit irishcentral.comWe analyzed Irishcentral.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.
irishcentral.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 230 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Irishcentral.com, 23% (54 requests) were made to Media.irishcentral.com and 9% (20 requests) were made to Vk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Vk.com.
Page size can be reduced by 506.6 kB (23%)
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In fact, the total size of Irishcentral.com main page is 2.2 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. 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 196.3 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 45.3 kB, which is 20% 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 196.3 kB or 86% of the original size.
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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. Irish Central images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 291.4 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 291.4 kB or 62% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 2.7 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. Irishcentral.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.7 kB or 70% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (42%)
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The browser has sent 212 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irish Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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irishcentral.com accessibility score
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.
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Buttons do not have an accessible name
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