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Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.
Visit met.ieWe analyzed Met.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 282 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.
met.ie performance score
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Value4.0 s
22/100
10%
Value15.9 s
0/100
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Value12.2 s
3/100
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Value1,660 ms
11/100
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Value0.242
51/100
15%
Value20.5 s
2/100
10%
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Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Met.ie, 9% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (503 ms) belongs to the original domain Met.ie.
Page size can be reduced by 65.8 kB (28%)
235.7 kB
170.0 kB
In fact, the total size of Met.ie main page is 235.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 148.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 24.5 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 24.5 kB or 74% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 9.9 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. Met images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 5.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 5.3 kB or 22% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 26.1 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. Met.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.1 kB or 86% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (51%)
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The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Met. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
met.ie
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www.met.ie
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ga.js
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print.css
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met.css
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met.js
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cookie-accept-usage.js
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met.ie-logo.gif
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met.ie_brand.gif
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spacer.gif
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divider.gif
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light_rain.png
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go.gif
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print_icon.gif
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nat00_weather.png
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region_mini.gif
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meteoalarm.jpg
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stormnav.JPG
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bull-cover.jpg
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warnings-yellow.png
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met.ie accessibility score
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
[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes
[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
Impact
Issue
Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
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
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Tables and lists
These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.
Impact
Issue
Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).
met.ie best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Requests the geolocation permission on page load
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
Impact
Issue
Serves images with low resolution
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
met.ie SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
Links do not have descriptive text
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
Impact
Issue
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
EN
N/A
ISO-8859-1
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Met.ie 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 Met.ie 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.
met.ie
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Met. 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: