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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,600 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

mirror.ie

146 ms

www.irishmirror.ie

45 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

57 ms

choice.js

694 ms

section-base.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mirror.ie, 32% (26 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 31% (25 requests) were made to S2-prod.irishmirror.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (702 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Mirror.ie main page is 2.0 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. HTML takes 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 974.4 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 MB
After compression 121.1 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. 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 974.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

Original 37.9 kB
After minification 18.0 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, Mirror needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.8 kB or 52% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

Original 859.7 kB
After minification 859.7 kB
After compression 841.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

Original 47.0 kB
After minification 47.0 kB
After compression 46.0 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. Mirror.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mirror. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.