Access ashford.ie. 5 Star Hotels Ireland, Castle Hotels Ireland

ashford.ie

448 ms

www.ashfordcastle.com

1015 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

27 ms

css

110 ms

css

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 242 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ashford.ie, 76% (185 requests) were made to Ashfordcastle.com and 3% (8 requests) were made to Assetscdn.stackla.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Fe.avvio.com.

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ashford.ie main page is 4.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 112.7 kB

Original 136.8 kB
After minification 112.8 kB
After compression 24.1 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 24.0 kB, which is 18% 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 112.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

Original 972.0 kB
After minification 970.7 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. Ashford images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

Original 2.5 MB
After minification 1.8 MB
After compression 672.7 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 1.8 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 457.3 kB

Original 561.2 kB
After minification 452.9 kB
After compression 103.9 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. Ashford.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 457.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Now

236

After Optimization

The browser has sent 236 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ashford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 122 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 46 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.