Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

americanandirish.com

American and Irish | The Place for Everything American and Irish!

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

831 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Americanandirish.com page load time and found that the first response time was 831 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

americanandirish.com performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

americanandirish.com

831 ms

style.css

252 ms

americanandirish.com

425 ms

style.css

130 ms

style.css

134 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Americanandirish.com, 11% (11 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 6% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Americanandirish.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Americanandirish.com main page is 2.3 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. 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 97.5 kB

  • Original 122.6 kB
  • After minification 120.5 kB
  • After compression 25.1 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 97.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 59.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. American And Irish images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 259.0 kB
  • After minification 255.8 kB
  • After compression 130.7 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 128.3 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 43.1 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. Americanandirish.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (47%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of American And Irish. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

americanandirish.com accessibility score

76

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

americanandirish.com 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

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

americanandirish.com SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Americanandirish.com 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 Americanandirish.com 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of American And Irish. 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: