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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

irw.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

344 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irw.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 344 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irw.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.716

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irw.co.uk

344 ms

chessict.co.uk

517 ms

otSDKStub.js

73 ms

js

99 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Irw.co.uk, 64% (45 requests) were made to Chessict.co.uk and 11% (8 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Chessict.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 346.1 kB (31%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

764.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Irw.co.uk 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 419.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 165.3 kB

  • Original 192.8 kB
  • After minification 159.2 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 33.6 kB, which is 17% 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 165.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 137.7 kB

  • Original 342.9 kB
  • After minification 205.2 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, Irw needs image optimization as it can save up to 137.7 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 419.1 kB
  • After minification 419.1 kB
  • After compression 415.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 155.4 kB
  • After minification 155.4 kB
  • After compression 115.7 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. Irw.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (46%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irw. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

irw.co.uk accessibility score

93

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

irw.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

irw.co.uk SEO score

91

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

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 Irw.co.uk 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 Irw.co.uk 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 Irw. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: