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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

weswitchu.ie

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

237 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weswitchu.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 237 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

weswitchu.ie performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,690 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.173

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

weswitchu.ie

237 ms

www.weswitchu.ie

401 ms

css

39 ms

jquery.js

289 ms

main.min.css

464 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Weswitchu.ie, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (694 ms) relates to the external source Js-eu1.hscollectedforms.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 147.1 kB (27%)

Content Size

550.7 kB

After Optimization

403.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Weswitchu.ie main page is 550.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 263.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 38.4 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 52.1 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 38.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 165.9 kB
  • After minification 163.9 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. We SwitchU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 79.4 kB

  • Original 263.2 kB
  • After minification 263.2 kB
  • After compression 183.7 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 79.4 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 64.6 kB
  • After minification 64.6 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Weswitchu.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.4 kB or 42% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (38%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of We SwitchU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

weswitchu.ie

weswitchu.ie

237 ms

www.weswitchu.ie

www.weswitchu.ie

401 ms

css

css

39 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

289 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

464 ms

js

js

79 ms

25866781.js

25866781.js

444 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

22 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

365 ms

jquery.validate.password.js

jquery.validate.password.js

321 ms

additional-methods.js

additional-methods.js

322 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

321 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

375 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

372 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

66 ms

hotjar-1769225.js

hotjar-1769225.js

108 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

88 ms

wsu-banner-image.png

wsu-banner-image.png

139 ms

underlay-logo.svg

underlay-logo.svg

86 ms

icon-arrow-circle.svg

icon-arrow-circle.svg

87 ms

icon-user.svg

icon-user.svg

89 ms

icon-cycle.svg

icon-cycle.svg

90 ms

icon-spyglass.svg

icon-spyglass.svg

157 ms

overlay-logo.svg

overlay-logo.svg

158 ms

icon-facebook.svg

icon-facebook.svg

156 ms

icon-twitter.svg

icon-twitter.svg

161 ms

icon-instagram.svg

icon-instagram.svg

159 ms

icon-linkedin.svg

icon-linkedin.svg

208 ms

footer-tripadvisor.png

footer-tripadvisor.png

232 ms

footer-ssl.png

footer-ssl.png

233 ms

banner.js

banner.js

487 ms

25866781.js

25866781.js

502 ms

collectedforms.js

collectedforms.js

694 ms

fb.js

fb.js

453 ms

conversations-embed.js

conversations-embed.js

455 ms

underlay-footer.svg

underlay-footer.svg

204 ms

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69 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

181 ms

icon-user.svg

icon-user.svg

185 ms

icon-cycle.svg

icon-cycle.svg

234 ms

icon-spyglass.svg

icon-spyglass.svg

250 ms

icon-facebook.svg

icon-facebook.svg

248 ms

icon-twitter.svg

icon-twitter.svg

251 ms

icon-instagram.svg

icon-instagram.svg

251 ms

icon-linkedin.svg

icon-linkedin.svg

254 ms

Accessibility Review

weswitchu.ie accessibility score

87

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

weswitchu.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

weswitchu.ie SEO score

87

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

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 Weswitchu.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 Weswitchu.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

weswitchu.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of We SwitchU. 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: