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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

brownbin.ie

MyWaste | Ireland's Guide to Managing Waste | Recycling and Rubbish My Waste

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

168 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

805 ms

About Website

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Welcome to My Waste, Ireland’s official guide to managing your waste. Browse this site for local waste services, recycling facilities, information on preventing, reusing and disposing of waste.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brownbin.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 168 ms and then it took 7.5 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

brownbin.ie performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,110 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.281

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brownbin.ie

168 ms

www.mywaste.ie

368 ms

www.mywaste.ie

778 ms

uc.js

114 ms

style.min.css

279 ms

Our browser made a total of 162 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Brownbin.ie, 59% (95 requests) were made to Mywaste.ie and 23% (37 requests) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Mywaste.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 576.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Brownbin.ie main page is 3.2 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. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 320.9 kB

  • Original 358.5 kB
  • After minification 343.4 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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 320.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 166.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Brownbin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 89.1 kB

  • Original 209.0 kB
  • After minification 209.0 kB
  • After compression 119.9 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 89.1 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (61%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brownbin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

brownbin.ie accessibility score

69

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

brownbin.ie best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brownbin.ie SEO score

86

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

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 Brownbin.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 Brownbin.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

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