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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

waterfordmuseum.ie

Waterford County Museum

Page Load Speed

8.3 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

178 ms

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About Website

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Waterford County Museum is a voluntary museum dedicated to preserving the history of County Waterford, Ireland. Based in the town of Dungarvan, the museum is open to the public throughout the year and...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterfordmuseum.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 8.2 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

waterfordmuseum.ie performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordmuseum.ie

129 ms

waterfordmuseum.ie

317 ms

web

2002 ms

deiseditor_divs.css

43 ms

slider.css

344 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Waterfordmuseum.ie, 11% (5 requests) were made to Deisedesign.ie and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterfordmuseum.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

536.0 kB

After Optimization

458.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterfordmuseum.ie main page is 536.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 395.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 20.9 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 15.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 395.0 kB
  • After minification 378.4 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. Waterford Museum images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 41.7 kB

  • Original 108.1 kB
  • After minification 108.1 kB
  • After compression 66.4 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 41.7 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. Waterfordmuseum.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (31%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterford Museum. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordmuseum.ie

waterfordmuseum.ie

129 ms

waterfordmuseum.ie

waterfordmuseum.ie

317 ms

web

web

2002 ms

deiseditor_divs.css

deiseditor_divs.css

43 ms

slider.css

slider.css

344 ms

default.css

default.css

469 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

473 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

23 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

jquery.backstretch.min.js

697 ms

sm-core-css.css

sm-core-css.css

119 ms

sm-museum.css

sm-museum.css

66 ms

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

jquery.smartmenus.min.js

60 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

5 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

481 ms

deiseditor_email.js

deiseditor_email.js

482 ms

7.jpg

7.jpg

998 ms

19.jpg

19.jpg

1275 ms

10.jpg

10.jpg

2260 ms

signature.gif

signature.gif

2255 ms

wide_header_background.gif

wide_header_background.gif

53 ms

wide_waterford_county_museum.gif

wide_waterford_county_museum.gif

53 ms

museummenu_back.gif

museummenu_back.gif

53 ms

wide_search_button.gif

wide_search_button.gif

52 ms

wide_full_panel_background.gif

wide_full_panel_background.gif

293 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

2030 ms

front_panel1.jpg

front_panel1.jpg

2020 ms

more.gif

more.gif

91 ms

front_panel2.jpg

front_panel2.jpg

2016 ms

front_panel3.jpg

front_panel3.jpg

2016 ms

front_panel4.jpg

front_panel4.jpg

2475 ms

join.gif

join.gif

303 ms

makeadonation.gif

makeadonation.gif

317 ms

facebook.gif

facebook.gif

328 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

342 ms

blogger.gif

blogger.gif

351 ms

youtube.gif

youtube.gif

355 ms

supportedby.gif

supportedby.gif

364 ms

tiny_eight.gif

tiny_eight.gif

3021 ms

list_item.gif

list_item.gif

1993 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

landscape.png

landscape.png

1980 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

main.js

main.js

13 ms

js

js

89 ms

web

web

1823 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

87 ms

Accessibility Review

waterfordmuseum.ie accessibility score

54

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

waterfordmuseum.ie best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

waterfordmuseum.ie SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Waterfordmuseum.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 Waterfordmuseum.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

waterfordmuseum.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Waterford Museum. 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: