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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

2connect.ie

Singles Matchmaking Meeting and Dating through Ireland's leading Introductions Site.

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

2connect.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing 2 Connect content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about 2connect.ie

2CONNECT is Irelands most popular match making company for single, separated and divorced people in Dublin, Cork and Galway. We also organise speed dating, parties, pub quizzes and outdoor activities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 2connect.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

2connect.ie performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

2connect.ie

69 ms

www.2connect.ie

57 ms

www.2connect.ie

157 ms

js

88 ms

gtm.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original 2connect.ie, 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (460 ms) belongs to the original domain 2connect.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 360.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 2connect.ie main page is 4.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 26.8 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.1 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 19.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 331.9 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. 2 Connect images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 31.5 kB
  • After minification 31.1 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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 5.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. 2connect.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (39%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 2 Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

2connect.ie

2connect.ie

69 ms

www.2connect.ie

www.2connect.ie

57 ms

www.2connect.ie

www.2connect.ie

157 ms

js

js

88 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

136 ms

dc.js

dc.js

39 ms

css

css

31 ms

styles.css

styles.css

67 ms

zSlider.js

zSlider.js

119 ms

zSlider.css

zSlider.css

119 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

56 ms

RotateBanners.js

RotateBanners.js

119 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

jquery.innerfade.js

148 ms

formSubmit.js

formSubmit.js

151 ms

regfriendForm.js

regfriendForm.js

150 ms

CheckEmail.js

CheckEmail.js

149 ms

jquery-timing.min.js

jquery-timing.min.js

148 ms

nuofblreamfoksjywmyqd8c4z6xhfp4m.js

nuofblreamfoksjywmyqd8c4z6xhfp4m.js

149 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

render.78cce4571e3a8dcf2344.js

render.78cce4571e3a8dcf2344.js

145 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

101 ms

Logo_new.png

Logo_new.png

61 ms

Logo.png

Logo.png

75 ms

instagram-icon-png-image.png

instagram-icon-png-image.png

60 ms

instagram-icon-png-image.png

instagram-icon-png-image.png

56 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

83 ms

facebook-icon.png

facebook-icon.png

56 ms

CRAZY%20PARTY%20IMAGE%20FOR%20EVENTBRITE.png

CRAZY%20PARTY%20IMAGE%20FOR%20EVENTBRITE.png

276 ms

Crazy%20Hat%20Party%20Image%20(1).jpeg

Crazy%20Hat%20Party%20Image%20(1).jpeg

209 ms

ROMANTIC%20COUPLE%20AT%20SUNSET.png

ROMANTIC%20COUPLE%20AT%20SUNSET.png

446 ms

img_left_02.jpg

img_left_02.jpg

164 ms

img_left_02.jpg

img_left_02.jpg

210 ms

speed%20dating%20511.jpg

speed%20dating%20511.jpg

269 ms

img_left01.jpg

img_left01.jpg

422 ms

img_right_021.jpg

img_right_021.jpg

460 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

52 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

53 ms

Accessibility Review

2connect.ie accessibility score

65

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

2connect.ie best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

2connect.ie SEO score

77

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 2connect.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 2connect.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

2connect.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 2 Connect. 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: