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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

earlycareerawards.ie

The Irish Early Career Awards | Recognising Ireland's Early Career Achievers

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

501 ms

About Website

Visit earlycareerawards.ie now to see the best up-to-date Early Career Awards content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about earlycareerawards.ie

The Irish Early Career Awards celebrates excellence & recognises the work & achievements of young Irish professionals under 35 across multiple industries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Earlycareerawards.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 9.1 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

earlycareerawards.ie performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,790 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

earlycareerawards.ie

1439 ms

css

43 ms

layerslider.css

253 ms

css

84 ms

styles.css

265 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Earlycareerawards.ie, 7% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Earlycareerawards.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (39%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Earlycareerawards.ie main page is 6.3 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. 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 49.3 kB
  • After minification 47.7 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 39.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 85.5 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Early Career Awards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 975.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 665.3 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 975.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 232.5 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. Earlycareerawards.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (69%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Early Career Awards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

earlycareerawards.ie accessibility score

69

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

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

earlycareerawards.ie best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

earlycareerawards.ie SEO score

97

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

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