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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

apexfire.ie

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Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

298 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

358 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apexfire.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 298 ms and then it took 5.5 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

apexfire.ie performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apexfire.ie

298 ms

www.apexfire.ie

631 ms

6xgt.css

219 ms

6xgt.css

295 ms

6xgt.css

523 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Apexfire.ie, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (721 ms) belongs to the original domain Apexfire.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 253.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apexfire.ie main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 159.6 kB

  • Original 189.5 kB
  • After minification 181.4 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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 159.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 83.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 981.8 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. Apex Fire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 345.7 kB
  • After minification 345.7 kB
  • After compression 339.2 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 105.8 kB
  • After minification 105.8 kB
  • After compression 101.4 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. Apexfire.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (50%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Fire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apexfire.ie

apexfire.ie

298 ms

www.apexfire.ie

www.apexfire.ie

631 ms

6xgt.css

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219 ms

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6xgt.css

295 ms

6xgt.css

6xgt.css

523 ms

6xgt.css

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291 ms

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39 ms

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41 ms

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210 ms

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334 ms

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687 ms

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386 ms

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53 ms

css

css

37 ms

6xgt.css

6xgt.css

297 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

321 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

403 ms

index.js

index.js

457 ms

index.js

index.js

457 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

487 ms

jquery.tools.min.js

jquery.tools.min.js

504 ms

waitforimages.min.js

waitforimages.min.js

514 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

561 ms

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

647 ms

jackbox-packed.min.js

jackbox-packed.min.js

589 ms

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602 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

608 ms

script.js

script.js

670 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

700 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

232 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

182 ms

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232 ms

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RequestSurveyButton-1.png

281 ms

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179 ms

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280 ms

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280 ms

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279 ms

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399 ms

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398 ms

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398 ms

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399 ms

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482 ms

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479 ms

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461 ms

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479 ms

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498 ms

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566 ms

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592 ms

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586 ms

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582 ms

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631 ms

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632 ms

Website-Blue.png

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683 ms

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685 ms

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145 ms

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145 ms

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621 ms

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25 ms

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492 ms

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asset_composer.js

52 ms

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85 ms

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55 ms

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55 ms

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721 ms

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714 ms

Accessibility Review

apexfire.ie accessibility score

80

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

apexfire.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

apexfire.ie SEO score

90

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

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 Apexfire.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 Apexfire.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

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