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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

alucast.ie

Alucast | Cast Iron and Aluminium Rainwater Systems

Page Load Speed

11.4 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

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About Website

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

We are constantly investing in our product range and now carry the largest range in Ireland of aluminium and cast iron gutters, downpipes and hoppers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alucast.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alucast.ie performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value39.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alucast.ie

2454 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

358 ms

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

288 ms

wc-blocks-style.css

738 ms

styles.css

286 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Alucast.ie, 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Alucast.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (37%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alucast.ie main page is 5.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 80.9 kB

  • Original 100.7 kB
  • After minification 100.6 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 80.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Alucast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 826.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 530.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 826.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 157.7 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. Alucast.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (58%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alucast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alucast.ie

alucast.ie

2454 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

358 ms

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

288 ms

wc-blocks-style.css

wc-blocks-style.css

738 ms

styles.css

styles.css

286 ms

rs6.css

rs6.css

605 ms

style.css

style.css

726 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

645 ms

css

css

24 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

1148 ms

ywraq-frontend.css

ywraq-frontend.css

445 ms

Defaults.css

Defaults.css

547 ms

ultimate.min.css

ultimate.min.css

1079 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

832 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

761 ms

rbtools.min.js

rbtools.min.js

866 ms

rs6.min.js

rs6.min.js

1054 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

917 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

923 ms

woocommerce-add-to-cart.js

woocommerce-add-to-cart.js

955 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

1228 ms

ultimate.min.js

ultimate.min.js

1383 ms

js

js

83 ms

css

css

14 ms

css

css

41 ms

css

css

22 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

782 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

898 ms

index.js

index.js

898 ms

ajax.js

ajax.js

909 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

924 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

961 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

972 ms

effects.js

effects.js

1009 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

1012 ms

api.js

api.js

39 ms

index.js

index.js

1047 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

1190 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1060 ms

html5shiv.js

html5shiv.js

1098 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

1099 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

1188 ms

alucast.ie

alucast.ie

2015 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

161 ms

slide-1.jpg

slide-1.jpg

446 ms

slide3.jpg

slide3.jpg

837 ms

slide2.jpg

slide2.jpg

1388 ms

seai.png

seai.png

160 ms

iso.png

iso.png

262 ms

assoc.png

assoc.png

261 ms

nsai.png

nsai.png

443 ms

aboutimage.jpg

aboutimage.jpg

443 ms

homeimage.jpg

homeimage.jpg

777 ms

Legacy_Cast_Aluminium_Plain_Half_Round_Gutter_Drainage_Central4-300x300.jpg

Legacy_Cast_Aluminium_Plain_Half_Round_Gutter_Drainage_Central4-300x300.jpg

593 ms

Legacy_Cast_Aluminium_Plain_Half_Round_Internal_Gutter_Angle_Drainage_Central3-300x300.jpg

Legacy_Cast_Aluminium_Plain_Half_Round_Internal_Gutter_Angle_Drainage_Central3-300x300.jpg

592 ms

135-300x300.jpg

135-300x300.jpg

664 ms

iconcontact.png

iconcontact.png

664 ms

iconcatalog.png

iconcatalog.png

775 ms

iconproducts.png

iconproducts.png

776 ms

icontehc.png

icontehc.png

812 ms

js

js

102 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

98 ms

b1.jpg

b1.jpg

669 ms

b2.jpg

b2.jpg

722 ms

b3.jpg

b3.jpg

742 ms

b4.jpg

b4.jpg

753 ms

collect

collect

22 ms

Defaults.woff

Defaults.woff

692 ms

font

font

177 ms

themify.woff

themify.woff

720 ms

font

font

177 ms

collect

collect

241 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

182 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

202 ms

Accessibility Review

alucast.ie accessibility score

85

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.

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

alucast.ie best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

alucast.ie SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

alucast.ie

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Alucast. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: