Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

irishjobs.ie

Jobs in Ireland - Best jobs Ireland has to offer | IrishJobs.ie

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

305 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irishjobs.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 305 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irishjobs.ie performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,590 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irishjobs.ie

305 ms

www.irishjobs.ie

351 ms

604200824.js

104 ms

large-screen.css

190 ms

style.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Irishjobs.ie, 5% (3 requests) were made to and 3% (2 requests) were made to Stepstone.112.2o7.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (641 ms) belongs to the original domain Irishjobs.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 806.4 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

510.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Irishjobs.ie main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 657.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 46.0 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 9.3 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 36.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 243.0 kB
  • After minification 228.8 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. Irish Jobs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 467.6 kB

  • Original 657.9 kB
  • After minification 503.2 kB
  • After compression 190.2 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 467.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 288.2 kB

  • Original 369.6 kB
  • After minification 254.3 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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. Irishjobs.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 288.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (50%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irish Jobs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

irishjobs.ie accessibility score

66

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

irishjobs.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

irishjobs.ie SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Irishjobs.ie 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 Irishjobs.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 description is not detected on the main page of Irish Jobs. 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: