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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 63% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

irishtraining.ie

ITEC - Distance Learning Centre | QQI Acrredited Learning Centre

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

487 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irishtraining.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 487 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irishtraining.ie performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.3 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irishtraining.ie

487 ms

styles.css

180 ms

javascript.js

187 ms

brand

17 ms

topblue_550.gif

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Irishtraining.ie, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) belongs to the original domain Irishtraining.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.1 kB (26%)

Content Size

134.5 kB

After Optimization

99.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Irishtraining.ie main page is 134.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 83.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 6.1 kB, which is 19% 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 25.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 83.1 kB
  • After minification 75.2 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. Irishtraining images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 582 B

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 17.7 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 898 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 886 B
  • After compression 304 B

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. Irishtraining.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 898 B or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (30%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irishtraining. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

irishtraining.ie

irishtraining.ie

487 ms

styles.css

styles.css

180 ms

javascript.js

javascript.js

187 ms

brand

brand

17 ms

topblue_550.gif

topblue_550.gif

208 ms

clear.gif

clear.gif

213 ms

itec_title_opt.gif

itec_title_opt.gif

213 ms

brand

brand

48 ms

top_home_opt.gif

top_home_opt.gif

105 ms

top_book_opt.gif

top_book_opt.gif

104 ms

top_about_opt.gif

top_about_opt.gif

104 ms

top_search_opt.gif

top_search_opt.gif

103 ms

top_contact_opt.gif

top_contact_opt.gif

103 ms

top_accred_opttpnew.gif

top_accred_opttpnew.gif

103 ms

gobutton_opt.gif

gobutton_opt.gif

193 ms

GI-Logo-5-RGB72ppi.jpg

GI-Logo-5-RGB72ppi.jpg

190 ms

ilm_logo.gif

ilm_logo.gif

189 ms

280x25adviceline_opt.gif

280x25adviceline_opt.gif

193 ms

welcome-to-itec-2010.jpg

welcome-to-itec-2010.jpg

457 ms

pic4.gif

pic4.gif

191 ms

pic2b.gif

pic2b.gif

280 ms

Mgt_Leader_test_1.gif

Mgt_Leader_test_1.gif

548 ms

67x67childminding_opt.jpg

67x67childminding_opt.jpg

281 ms

ITEC_offer_1.GIF

ITEC_offer_1.GIF

372 ms

QQI-Awards-The-Open-College.png

QQI-Awards-The-Open-College.png

282 ms

ga.js

ga.js

21 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

86 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Mgt_Leader_test_2.gif

Mgt_Leader_test_2.gif

274 ms

Accessibility Review

irishtraining.ie accessibility score

86

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

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

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

irishtraining.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

irishtraining.ie SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Irishtraining.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 Irishtraining.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

irishtraining.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Irishtraining. 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: