Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

whalewatchwestcork.com

Whale Watching in Ireland Irish Whale Watching West Cork Ireland

Page Load Speed

28.7 sec in total

First Response

452 ms

Resources Loaded

27.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

whalewatchwestcork.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whalewatchwestcork.com page load time and found that the first response time was 452 ms and then it took 28.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

whalewatchwestcork.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value53,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.246

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value61.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whalewatchwestcork.com

452 ms

whale-watching.css

181 ms

bookmark.js

176 ms

backgroundfeb09.gif

295 ms

youtube.png

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Whalewatchwestcork.com, 43% (40 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Tripadvisor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

256.5 kB

After Optimization

237.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Whalewatchwestcork.com main page is 256.5 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 218.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 16.8 kB
  • After minification 16.8 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 11.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 218.1 kB
  • After minification 214.1 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. Whale Watch West Cork images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 143 B

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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

-80%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.0 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 827 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. Whalewatchwestcork.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (55%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Whale Watch West Cork. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

whalewatchwestcork.com accessibility score

77

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

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

whalewatchwestcork.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

whalewatchwestcork.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Whalewatchwestcork.com 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 Whalewatchwestcork.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Whale Watch West Cork. 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: