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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

tv3.ie

Virgin Media Television - Live and On-Demand on Virgin Media Player (formerly TV3 and 3player)

Page Load Speed

13.6 sec in total

First Response

540 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

4.8 sec

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About Website

Welcome to tv3.ie homepage info - get ready to check TV3 best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about tv3.ie

Entertainment, News, Sport, Soaps and all your favourite Irish and International shows from Virgin Media Television live and on-demand.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tv3.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 540 ms and then it took 13.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tv3.ie performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.051

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tv3.ie

540 ms

www.tv3.ie

786 ms

bootstrap.min.css

423 ms

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386 ms

jquery.min.js

2162 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Tv3.ie, 32% (20 requests) were made to 93546-d-c.ooyala.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source 93546-d-c.ooyala.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 968.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tv3.ie main page is 4.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 54.8 kB

  • Original 70.3 kB
  • After minification 70.0 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 54.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 223.8 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. TV3 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 397.3 kB

  • Original 659.2 kB
  • After minification 655.3 kB
  • After compression 261.8 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 397.3 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 292.1 kB

  • Original 350.8 kB
  • After minification 299.0 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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. Tv3.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 292.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (35%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TV3. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tv3.ie

tv3.ie

540 ms

www.tv3.ie

www.tv3.ie

786 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

423 ms

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386 ms

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2162 ms

bootstrap.min.js

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2162 ms

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2163 ms

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1710 ms

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1712 ms

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960 ms

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601 ms

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600 ms

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925 ms

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1378 ms

2186 ms

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1506 ms

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container.html

636 ms

ads

ads

592 ms

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ads

438 ms

37 ms

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95 ms

Accessibility Review

tv3.ie accessibility score

67

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

tv3.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

SEO Factors

tv3.ie SEO score

73

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Tv3.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 Tv3.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

tv3.ie

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of TV3. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: