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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

thebus.ie

Bus to Dublin from Sligo The Bus thebus Carrick Mullingar

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

796 ms

Page Rendered

148 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thebus.ie homepage info - get ready to check The Bus best content right away, or after learning these important things about thebus.ie

The Bus offers a return service from Sligo to Dublin serving Mullingar, Longford, Dublin Airport, Carrick on Shannon. Thebus or the bus.ie

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebus.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 944 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thebus.ie performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.3 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebus.ie

247 ms

style.css

84 ms

newlogo.jpg

460 ms

dub.jpg

160 ms

sligo.jpg

159 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Thebus.ie, 45% (17 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) belongs to the original domain Thebus.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 22.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

537.3 kB

After Optimization

515.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebus.ie main page is 537.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 519.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 11.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 519.4 kB
  • After minification 508.9 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. The Bus images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 104 B

  • Original 869 B
  • After minification 869 B
  • After compression 765 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. Thebus.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (33%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Bus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thebus.ie

thebus.ie

247 ms

style.css

style.css

84 ms

newlogo.jpg

newlogo.jpg

460 ms

dub.jpg

dub.jpg

160 ms

sligo.jpg

sligo.jpg

159 ms

timetable.jpg

timetable.jpg

236 ms

fares.jpg

fares.jpg

317 ms

busstops.jpg

busstops.jpg

237 ms

vehicles.jpg

vehicles.jpg

317 ms

survey.png

survey.png

546 ms

concerts.jpg

concerts.jpg

317 ms

private.jpg

private.jpg

317 ms

basebar.png

basebar.png

436 ms

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likebox.php

310 ms

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thebus.ie

355 ms

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356 ms

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Accessibility Review

thebus.ie accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

thebus.ie best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thebus.ie SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thebus.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 Thebus.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

thebus.ie

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