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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

8west.ie

Software Development and Business Consulting | 8 West Consulting | Home

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

306 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

133 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing 8 West content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about 8west.ie

8 West Consulting is an award-winning, full service, enterprise software development company with over 200 professionals and a 20 year history of innovation and on-time delivery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed 8west.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 306 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

8west.ie performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

8west.ie

306 ms

styles.css

75 ms

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

26 ms

script.js

145 ms

otSDKStub.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original 8west.ie, 23% (8 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain 8west.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 133.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

353.8 kB

After Optimization

220.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 8west.ie main page is 353.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 156.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 96.5 kB

  • Original 117.4 kB
  • After minification 115.7 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 96.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 51 B

  • Original 68.3 kB
  • After minification 68.2 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. 8 West images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 156.7 kB
  • After minification 156.7 kB
  • After compression 124.0 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 32.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 11.4 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. 8west.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (43%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 8 West. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

8west.ie

8west.ie

306 ms

styles.css

styles.css

75 ms

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

26 ms

script.js

script.js

145 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

54 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

50740bf4-e3ed-4ff6-8528-d893a6210ddb.json

50740bf4-e3ed-4ff6-8528-d893a6210ddb.json

61 ms

8WestConsulting-black.svg

8WestConsulting-black.svg

76 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

150 ms

twitter.svg

twitter.svg

153 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

210 ms

nsai-logo-dark.svg

nsai-logo-dark.svg

213 ms

aws-Partner-dark-logo.svg

aws-Partner-dark-logo.svg

310 ms

menu_icon.svg

menu_icon.svg

312 ms

menu_close_icon.svg

menu_close_icon.svg

312 ms

8WestConsulting-white.svg

8WestConsulting-white.svg

316 ms

eightwest_bodyDivider.jpg

eightwest_bodyDivider.jpg

314 ms

eightwest_videoOverlay.png

eightwest_videoOverlay.png

315 ms

eightwest_posterImg.jpg

eightwest_posterImg.jpg

417 ms

eightwest_bg.gif

eightwest_bg.gif

1231 ms

nsai-logo.svg

nsai-logo.svg

355 ms

aws-Partner-logo.svg

aws-Partner-logo.svg

366 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

location

location

47 ms

geomanist-light-webfont.woff

geomanist-light-webfont.woff

384 ms

geomanist-regular-webfont.woff

geomanist-regular-webfont.woff

318 ms

geomanist-bold-webfont.woff

geomanist-bold-webfont.woff

367 ms

geomanist-extralight-webfont.woff

geomanist-extralight-webfont.woff

377 ms

js

js

74 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

25 ms

en.json

en.json

34 ms

otFlat.json

otFlat.json

16 ms

otPcCenter.json

otPcCenter.json

34 ms

8WestConsulting-white.png

8WestConsulting-white.png

36 ms

poweredBy_cp_logo.svg

poweredBy_cp_logo.svg

17 ms

Accessibility Review

8west.ie accessibility score

86

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.

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

8west.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

8west.ie SEO score

83

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 8west.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 8west.ie main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

8west.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 8 West. 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: