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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

helys.ie

Helys and Paperpunch Merger - Welcome to Paperpunch

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Helys.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

helys.ie performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welcome-to-paperpunch

88 ms

welcome-to-paperpunch

822 ms

gtm.js

99 ms

custom-jstranslations

408 ms

webfontloader.js

84 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Helys.ie, 16% (8 requests) were made to Eu.evocdn.io and 10% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (822 ms) relates to the external source Online.paperpunch.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 407.5 kB (39%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

646.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Helys.ie main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 471.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 350.5 kB

  • Original 394.2 kB
  • After minification 285.6 kB
  • After compression 43.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 108.6 kB, which is 28% 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 350.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 471.7 kB
  • After minification 447.6 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. Helys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 84.4 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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 32.2 kB or 38% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 606 B

  • Original 103.3 kB
  • After minification 103.3 kB
  • After compression 102.7 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. Helys.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (61%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

helys.ie accessibility score

74

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

helys.ie 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

helys.ie SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Helys.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 Helys.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 description is not detected on the main page of Helys. 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: