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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

archive.met.ie

Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service Online

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

162 ms

Resources Loaded

859 ms

Page Rendered

84 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Archive Met content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about archive.met.ie

Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Archive.met.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 162 ms and then it took 943 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

archive.met.ie performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

archive.met.ie

162 ms

js

59 ms

print.css

77 ms

met.css

143 ms

met.js

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Archive.met.ie, 28% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (322 ms) relates to the external source Syndication.twitter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.6 kB (33%)

Content Size

77.6 kB

After Optimization

52.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Archive.met.ie main page is 77.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 40.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 28.2 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 3.6 kB, which is 13% 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 21.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 706 B

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 39.3 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. Archive Met images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 3.2 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 1.6 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Archive.met.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.3 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (58%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Archive Met. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

archive.met.ie accessibility score

70

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

archive.met.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

SEO Factors

archive.met.ie SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Archive.met.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Archive.met.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 Archive Met. 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: