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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 70% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    82% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

wheel.ie

Supporting & Representing Charities | The Wheel

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

234 ms

wheel.ie screenshot

About Website

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

The Wheel is Ireland’s association of community & voluntary organisations, charities & social enterprises.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wheel.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wheel.ie performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wheel.ie

4742 ms

68b7d8175e46e869e335c40c8c4907e4.css

182 ms

css_da4d712861168de06a542581dea46d0d.css

642 ms

grid12-960.css

187 ms

js_89710c16140333071bbaf71d6e0997ac.js

551 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Wheel.ie, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Wheel.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (67%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

640.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wheel.ie main page is 2.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 937.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 165.1 kB

  • Original 186.2 kB
  • After minification 178.0 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 165.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 74.8 kB

  • Original 363.5 kB
  • After minification 288.7 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. Obviously, Wheel needs image optimization as it can save up to 74.8 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 710.0 kB

  • Original 937.0 kB
  • After minification 936.9 kB
  • After compression 227.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 710.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 361.2 kB

  • Original 464.9 kB
  • After minification 460.1 kB
  • After compression 103.7 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. Wheel.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 361.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (26%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wheel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wheel.ie

wheel.ie

4742 ms

68b7d8175e46e869e335c40c8c4907e4.css

68b7d8175e46e869e335c40c8c4907e4.css

182 ms

css_da4d712861168de06a542581dea46d0d.css

css_da4d712861168de06a542581dea46d0d.css

642 ms

grid12-960.css

grid12-960.css

187 ms

js_89710c16140333071bbaf71d6e0997ac.js

js_89710c16140333071bbaf71d6e0997ac.js

551 ms

js_67f8d75f59529b48fb7377cb78da46ac.js

js_67f8d75f59529b48fb7377cb78da46ac.js

201 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

191 ms

Cut%20Your%20Costs!%20(1).jpg

Cut%20Your%20Costs!%20(1).jpg

697 ms

Advertise%20Here%20Banner%20RHS.PNG

Advertise%20Here%20Banner%20RHS.PNG

468 ms

Election2016Badge.png

Election2016Badge.png

479 ms

regulation%20badge.png

regulation%20badge.png

490 ms

logo.png

logo.png

127 ms

search-magnify.png

search-magnify.png

127 ms

black-bg-right-arrow.png

black-bg-right-arrow.png

127 ms

Member%20ship%20Ad_0.jpg

Member%20ship%20Ad_0.jpg

185 ms

Europe%20for%20Citizens%20(1).jpg

Europe%20for%20Citizens%20(1).jpg

139 ms

section_sprites.png

section_sprites.png

183 ms

picture-14043.jpg

picture-14043.jpg

183 ms

picture-1067.jpg

picture-1067.jpg

184 ms

user-avatar.png

user-avatar.png

185 ms

news-avatar.png

news-avatar.png

246 ms

picture-34297.png

picture-34297.png

273 ms

picture-52.jpg

picture-52.jpg

272 ms

picture-12007.png

picture-12007.png

272 ms

picture-17079.jpg

picture-17079.jpg

284 ms

picture-8512.jpg

picture-8512.jpg

285 ms

picture-14069.png

picture-14069.png

338 ms

picture-14035.jpg

picture-14035.jpg

361 ms

picture-752.jpg

picture-752.jpg

362 ms

picture-34485.jpg

picture-34485.jpg

363 ms

primary_sprites.png

primary_sprites.png

375 ms

footer_sprites.png

footer_sprites.png

374 ms

Slide1_7.PNG

Slide1_7.PNG

430 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

449 ms

footer-logo.png

footer-logo.png

450 ms

menu-leaf.png

menu-leaf.png

451 ms

carousel_controls.jpg

carousel_controls.jpg

366 ms

gradient.png

gradient.png

367 ms

collect

collect

30 ms

collect

collect

53 ms

Accessibility Review

wheel.ie accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

wheel.ie best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wheel.ie SEO score

84

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 Wheel.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 Wheel.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

wheel.ie

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