Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

accord.ie

Marriage Courses And Counselling - Accord Ireland

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

376 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

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About Website

Visit accord.ie now to see the best up-to-date Accord content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about accord.ie

We are Ireland’s leading island-wide agency supporting marriage and relationships for over 60 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Accord.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 376 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

accord.ie performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

accord.ie

376 ms

www.accord.ie

1401 ms

style-8.css

568 ms

donation.css

288 ms

script-min.js

563 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Accord.ie, 9% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Accord.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 128.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

540.7 kB

After Optimization

412.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Accord.ie main page is 540.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 251.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 100.8 kB

  • Original 117.3 kB
  • After minification 104.6 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.6 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 100.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 139 B

  • Original 251.7 kB
  • After minification 251.6 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. Accord images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 105.6 kB
  • After minification 105.6 kB
  • After compression 103.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 66.2 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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. Accord.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.7 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (25%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Accord. 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.

Accessibility Review

accord.ie accessibility score

87

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

accord.ie best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

accord.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 doesn't use 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 Accord.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 Accord.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

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