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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

transportforireland.ie

Your Journey Starts Here | Transport for Ireland

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Transport For Ireland content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about transportforireland.ie

TransportforIreland | TFI | We bring together information and services to help make public transport across Ireland a little easier for you to use. Plan your journey here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Transportforireland.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 9.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

transportforireland.ie performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,450 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

transportforireland.ie

264 ms

www.transportforireland.ie

5676 ms

style.css

165 ms

functions.css

165 ms

main4.css

325 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Transportforireland.ie, 6% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Transportforireland.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Transportforireland.ie main page is 2.8 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. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 84.6 kB

  • Original 101.4 kB
  • After minification 87.3 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.1 kB, which is 14% 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 84.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Transport For Ireland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 804 B

  • Original 99.9 kB
  • After minification 99.9 kB
  • After compression 99.0 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 836 B

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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. Transportforireland.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (62%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Transport For Ireland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

transportforireland.ie

transportforireland.ie

264 ms

www.transportforireland.ie

www.transportforireland.ie

5676 ms

style.css

style.css

165 ms

functions.css

functions.css

165 ms

main4.css

main4.css

325 ms

responsiveslides.css

responsiveslides.css

163 ms

responsive2.css

responsive2.css

165 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

6 ms

taxiform.css

taxiform.css

306 ms

bootstrap-tab.css

bootstrap-tab.css

341 ms

styles.css

styles.css

341 ms

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styles.css

319 ms

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style.css

341 ms

style.css

style.css

468 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

724 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

481 ms

bootstrap-tab.js

bootstrap-tab.js

482 ms

external-tracking.min.js

external-tracking.min.js

483 ms

easy-columns.css

easy-columns.css

493 ms

style.css

style.css

627 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

744 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

12 ms

custom2.js

custom2.js

501 ms

respond.js

respond.js

502 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

625 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

responsiveslides.min.js

648 ms

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

jquery.carouFredSel-6.2.1-packed.js

820 ms

jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js

jquery.li-scroller.1.0.js

663 ms

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

jquery.touchSwipe.min.js

803 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

802 ms

element.js

element.js

60 ms

wp_super_faq.js

wp_super_faq.js

802 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

910 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

913 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

14 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

929 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

827 ms

ga.js

ga.js

44 ms

5BT_TV1l_normal.jpg

5BT_TV1l_normal.jpg

21 ms

CwunApgV_normal.png

CwunApgV_normal.png

20 ms

TFI_TwitterIcon3.png

TFI_TwitterIcon3.png

411 ms

tfi_logo.png

tfi_logo.png

497 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

497 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

497 ms

youtube-icon.png

youtube-icon.png

505 ms

twitter_tfiupdates.png

twitter_tfiupdates.png

522 ms

new_news_header.jpg

new_news_header.jpg

702 ms

cycle-planner.png

cycle-planner.png

628 ms

real-time-ireland.png

real-time-ireland.png

629 ms

journey-planner-icon.png

journey-planner-icon.png

630 ms

taxi-driver.png

taxi-driver.png

666 ms

magnify-glass.png

magnify-glass.png

1578 ms

bg_main_nav_hover.png

bg_main_nav_hover.png

773 ms

TFI-1916-Home-banner-1.jpg

TFI-1916-Home-banner-1.jpg

1718 ms

we-are-bringing-people-closer.jpg

we-are-bringing-people-closer.jpg

1807 ms

We-are-going-places.jpg

We-are-going-places.jpg

1828 ms

We-are-all-about-the-city.jpg

We-are-all-about-the-city.jpg

1926 ms

jp_logo_white.png

jp_logo_white.png

934 ms

jp_info.png

jp_info.png

1094 ms

jp_inputbg_1.png

jp_inputbg_1.png

1259 ms

jp_inputbg_2.png

jp_inputbg_2.png

1417 ms

jp_inputbg_3.png

jp_inputbg_3.png

1578 ms

bottom-sprite.png

bottom-sprite.png

1733 ms

home_link_bg.png

home_link_bg.png

1741 ms

home_link_01.png

home_link_01.png

1878 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

home_link_02.png

home_link_02.png

1857 ms

home_link_03.png

home_link_03.png

1867 ms

home_link_04.png

home_link_04.png

1787 ms

icon_updates_irishrail.png

icon_updates_irishrail.png

1812 ms

icon_updates_buseir.png

icon_updates_buseir.png

1862 ms

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icon_updates_busdub.png

1873 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

66 ms

main.js

main.js

77 ms

icon_updates_luas.png

icon_updates_luas.png

1866 ms

element_main.js

element_main.js

109 ms

tp_clock.png

tp_clock.png

1781 ms

tp_navi_right.png

tp_navi_right.png

1819 ms

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17 ms

tp_navi_left.png

tp_navi_left.png

1764 ms

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1814 ms

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1825 ms

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translate_24dp.png

83 ms

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57 ms

cleardot.gif

cleardot.gif

69 ms

bg_footer.png

bg_footer.png

1908 ms

spriteme1.png

spriteme1.png

2006 ms

new_twitter_time.png

new_twitter_time.png

1804 ms

icons.png

icons.png

1829 ms

te_ctrl3.gif

te_ctrl3.gif

10 ms

Accessibility Review

transportforireland.ie accessibility score

89

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.

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

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

transportforireland.ie best practices score

67

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

transportforireland.ie SEO score

83

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

transportforireland.ie

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: