Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

aec-ireland.com

AECI Ireland - The Association of Electrical Contractors

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

Welcome to aec-ireland.com homepage info - get ready to check Aec Ireland best content right away, or after learning these important things about aec-ireland.com

AECI Ireland was established in 1960 representing Electrical Contractors who, as a group, are consistently the largest employers in the Electrical Contracting Industry

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aec-ireland.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aec-ireland.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aec-ireland.com

3325 ms

css

23 ms

grid.css

162 ms

base.css

163 ms

layout.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (114 requests) were addressed to the original Aec-ireland.com, 3% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Aec-ireland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 139.7 kB (26%)

Content Size

541.0 kB

After Optimization

401.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Aec-ireland.com main page is 541.0 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 205.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 56.5 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 66.1 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 56.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 124.2 kB
  • After minification 120.0 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. Aec Ireland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 205.9 kB
  • After minification 205.9 kB
  • After compression 164.6 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 41.2 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 142.9 kB
  • After compression 105.4 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. Aec-ireland.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.8 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 107 (94%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aec Ireland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 63 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aec-ireland.com accessibility score

93

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aec-ireland.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

aec-ireland.com SEO score

99

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Aec-ireland.com 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 Aec-ireland.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Aec Ireland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: