Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

mayo.ie

Home - Mayo County Council

Page Load Speed

18.5 sec in total

First Response

304 ms

Resources Loaded

18 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Mayo content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about mayo.ie

Welcome to the home page of Mayo County Council, serving our citizens to ensure Mayo is the ideal location to Visit, Invest and Live.

Visit mayo.ie

Key Findings

We analyzed Mayo.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 304 ms and then it took 18.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mayo.ie performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mayo.ie

304 ms

www.mayo.ie

359 ms

style.css

245 ms

tintembed.js

96 ms

jquery.min.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 187 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Mayo.ie, 11% (20 requests) were made to Syndication.twitter.com and 7% (14 requests) were made to Res-4.cloudinary.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9 sec) relates to the external source Res-1.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Mayo.ie main page is 3.9 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 66.7 kB
  • After minification 59.7 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 7.0 kB, which is 11% 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 57.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 87.4 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Mayo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 532.5 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 1.0 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 221.2 kB

  • Original 258.5 kB
  • After minification 251.9 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Mayo.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (37%)

Requests Now

171

After Optimization

107

The browser has sent 171 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mayo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mayo.ie accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

Best Practices

mayo.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

SEO Factors

mayo.ie 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 Mayo.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 Mayo.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 Mayo. 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: