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oireachtas.ie

Houses of the Oireachtas website

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

124 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

599 ms

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About Website

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Official website of Ireland's national parliament, comprising Dáil and Seanad Éireann and the Oireachtas Committees

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oireachtas.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 124 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oireachtas.ie performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.oireachtas.ie

124 ms

main-ec584c3d90.min.css

22 ms

evl7qdb.js

86 ms

otSDKStub.js

69 ms

scripts-22843f3356.min.js

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Oireachtas.ie, 15% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (491 ms) belongs to the original domain Oireachtas.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (43%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oireachtas.ie main page is 3.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 615.1 kB

  • Original 646.3 kB
  • After minification 340.3 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 305.9 kB, which is 47% 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 615.1 kB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Oireachtas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 476.3 kB

  • Original 765.9 kB
  • After minification 765.9 kB
  • After compression 289.6 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 476.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 354.6 kB

  • Original 418.8 kB
  • After minification 418.7 kB
  • After compression 64.3 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. Oireachtas.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 354.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Oireachtas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.oireachtas.ie

www.oireachtas.ie

124 ms

main-ec584c3d90.min.css

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22 ms

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86 ms

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otSDKStub.js

69 ms

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44 ms

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235 ms

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389 ms

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385 ms

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484 ms

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483 ms

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481 ms

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484 ms

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485 ms

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483 ms

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491 ms

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488 ms

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486 ms

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488 ms

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www.oireachtas.ie.js

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255 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

85 ms

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sri.json

81 ms

SEO Factors

oireachtas.ie SEO score

0

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 Oireachtas.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 Oireachtas.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Oireachtas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: