Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

live.citizensassembly.ie

Video Archive: Eleventh Meeting of the Citizens' Assembly

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

350 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

129 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Live.citizensassembly.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 350 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

live.citizensassembly.ie performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.062

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

live.citizensassembly.ie

350 ms

styles.css

105 ms

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169 ms

tb2

44 ms

CA_logo.png

474 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Live.citizensassembly.ie, 34% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 16% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (474 ms) belongs to the original domain Live.citizensassembly.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

554.4 kB

After Optimization

270.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Live.citizensassembly.ie main page is 554.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% 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 402.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 11.5 kB
  • After minification 9.8 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 1.7 kB, which is 15% 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 8.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 50.9 kB

  • Original 76.4 kB
  • After minification 25.5 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. Obviously, Live Citizens Assembly needs image optimization as it can save up to 50.9 kB or 67% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 221.5 kB

  • Original 402.7 kB
  • After minification 402.7 kB
  • After compression 181.2 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 221.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 62.5 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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. Live.citizensassembly.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (52%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live Citizens Assembly. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

live.citizensassembly.ie accessibility score

85

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

live.citizensassembly.ie 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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

live.citizensassembly.ie SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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