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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

ballymascanlon.com

Ballymascanlon Hotel & Golf Resort | 4* Hotel in Dundalk

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

228 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ballymascanlon.com page load time and found that the first response time was 228 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ballymascanlon.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

25/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ballymascanlon.com

228 ms

www.ballymascanlon.com

204 ms

www.ballymascanlon.com

404 ms

css2

31 ms

css2

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Ballymascanlon.com, 41% (45 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 11% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ballymascanlon.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.7 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ballymascanlon.com main page is 2.0 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 922.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 175.5 kB

  • Original 201.2 kB
  • After minification 199.6 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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 175.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 797.1 kB
  • After minification 782.9 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. Ballymascanlon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 216.8 kB

  • Original 922.3 kB
  • After minification 917.8 kB
  • After compression 705.4 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 216.8 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 49.9 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. Ballymascanlon.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (51%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballymascanlon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ballymascanlon.com accessibility score

78

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible 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

ballymascanlon.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ballymascanlon.com SEO score

78

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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