Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

standards.ie

NSAI Standards Store – National Standards Authority of Ireland

Page Load Speed

26.8 sec in total

First Response

401 ms

Resources Loaded

25.8 sec

Page Rendered

661 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Standards.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 401 ms and then it took 26.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

standards.ie performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

standards.ie

401 ms

shop.standards.ie

4399 ms

ektron.javascript.ashx

1067 ms

ektron.stylesheet.ashx

1471 ms

jquery-ui.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Standards.ie, 58% (45 requests) were made to Shop.standards.ie and 5% (4 requests) were made to 6789624.fls.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Shop.standards.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (39%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Standards.ie main page is 2.7 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 156.8 kB

  • Original 212.5 kB
  • After minification 197.8 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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 156.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 221.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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, Standards needs image optimization as it can save up to 221.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 668.0 kB

  • Original 953.1 kB
  • After minification 738.0 kB
  • After compression 285.1 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 668.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 54.9 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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. Standards.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (68%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Standards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

standards.ie accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

standards.ie best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

standards.ie SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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