Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

charteredaccountants.ie

Chartered Accountants Ireland | www.charteredaccountants.ie - ..rteredaccountants.ie

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

333 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

707 ms

About Website

Visit charteredaccountants.ie now to see the best up-to-date Chartered Accountants content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about charteredaccountants.ie

Chartered Accountants Ireland is a membership body representing over 30,000 members across the island of Ireland and overseas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Charteredaccountants.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 333 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

charteredaccountants.ie performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

charteredaccountants.ie

333 ms

charteredaccountants.ie

427 ms

gtm.js

107 ms

custom.min.css

149 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Charteredaccountants.ie, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Charteredaccountants.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 539.5 kB (17%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Charteredaccountants.ie main page is 3.3 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 164.5 kB

  • Original 198.9 kB
  • After minification 156.4 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 42.4 kB, which is 21% 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 164.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Chartered Accountants images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 304.0 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 304.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 54.3 kB

  • Original 184.0 kB
  • After minification 184.0 kB
  • After compression 129.6 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. Charteredaccountants.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.3 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (39%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chartered Accountants. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

charteredaccountants.ie accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

charteredaccountants.ie best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

charteredaccountants.ie SEO score

77

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 Charteredaccountants.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 Charteredaccountants.ie main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8;. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Chartered Accountants. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: