Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

solas.ie

Solas | Learning Works

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

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About Website

Welcome to solas.ie homepage info - get ready to check Solas best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about solas.ie

Further Education and Training programmes which enable learners to succeed in the labour market and thrive in society.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solas.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solas.ie performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.748

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solas.ie

329 ms

HomePage.aspx

774 ms

corev15.css

489 ms

main.css

514 ms

init.js

485 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Solas.ie, 88% (38 requests) were made to Www1.solas.ie and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) relates to the external source Www1.solas.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (65%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

725.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Solas.ie main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 72.8 kB
  • After minification 62.1 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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 10.6 kB, which is 15% 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 56.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 333.2 kB
  • After minification 321.5 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. Solas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 797.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 317.5 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 797.2 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 471.7 kB

  • Original 541.8 kB
  • After minification 400.2 kB
  • After compression 70.1 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. Solas.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 471.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (46%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

solas.ie accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

solas.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

solas.ie SEO score

98

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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