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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

politics.ie

Irish Politics & Current Affairs Forum | Politics.ie

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

341 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Politics.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

politics.ie performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

politics.ie

202 ms

www.politics.ie

536 ms

cloudflare.min.js

11 ms

yuiloader-dom-event.js

32 ms

vbulletin-core.js

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Politics.ie, 9% (8 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 8% (7 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (594 ms) belongs to the original domain Politics.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 429.8 kB (44%)

Content Size

975.9 kB

After Optimization

546.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Politics.ie main page is 975.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 349.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 122.0 kB

  • Original 149.5 kB
  • After minification 149.2 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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 122.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 349.5 kB
  • After minification 334.1 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. Politics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 187.2 kB

  • Original 349.6 kB
  • After minification 345.0 kB
  • After compression 162.4 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 187.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 105.2 kB

  • Original 127.2 kB
  • After minification 123.6 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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. Politics.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 105.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (64%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Politics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

politics.ie accessibility score

89

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Best Practices

politics.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

SEO Factors

politics.ie SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Politics.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 Politics.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.

Social Sharing Optimization

politics.ie

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