Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

irishlivesremembered.ie

Home - Irish Lives Remembered

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

405 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irishlivesremembered.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 405 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irishlivesremembered.ie performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irishlivesremembered.ie

405 ms

www.irishlivesremembered.ie

1298 ms

basekitcore.css.bgz

172 ms

bkpam224829_custom59.css

56 ms

bkpam224829_theme13187-59.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Irishlivesremembered.ie, 36% (8 requests) were made to Image.basekit.com and 23% (5 requests) were made to Widgets.bk-partners1.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Irishlivesremembered.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 251.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Irishlivesremembered.ie main page is 1.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 7.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 206.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Obviously, Irish Lives Remembered needs image optimization as it can save up to 206.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Irishlivesremembered.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.8 kB or 94% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (40%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irish Lives Remembered. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

irishlivesremembered.ie accessibility score

95

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

irishlivesremembered.ie 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

SEO Factors

irishlivesremembered.ie SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Irishlivesremembered.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 Irishlivesremembered.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 Lives Remembered. 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: