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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

anpost.com

Stamps | Current Accounts | Credit Cards | Loans | An Post

Page Load Speed

50.2 sec in total

First Response

457 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

45.9 sec

About Website

Visit anpost.com now to see the best up-to-date An Post content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about anpost.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Anpost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 457 ms and then it took 49.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

anpost.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value870 ms

33/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.anpost.com

457 ms

core.min.css

473 ms

css

54 ms

aos.js

387 ms

otSDKStub.js

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Anpost.com, 10% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Anpost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 359.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Anpost.com main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 196.9 kB

  • Original 231.3 kB
  • After minification 198.5 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 32.7 kB, which is 14% 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 196.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 109.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. An Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 242.4 kB
  • After minification 242.4 kB
  • After compression 227.5 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 561.8 kB
  • After minification 561.8 kB
  • After compression 523.1 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. Anpost.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (29%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of An Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

anpost.com accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

anpost.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

anpost.com SEO score

91

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

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 Anpost.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 Anpost.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 An Post. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: