Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

pressombudsman.ie

Press Council of Ireland - Office of the Press Ombudsman

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

578 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

133 ms

About Website

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Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman are independent press regulation in Ireland and receive complaints about newspapers and magazines published in Ireland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pressombudsman.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 578 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pressombudsman.ie performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

pressombudsman.ie

578 ms

reset-fonts-grids.css

176 ms

LEAdv.css

259 ms

jquery-1.6.4.min.js

924 ms

jquery.noconflict.js

466 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Pressombudsman.ie, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Pressombudsman.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 516.6 kB (72%)

Content Size

720.6 kB

After Optimization

203.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Pressombudsman.ie main page is 720.6 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 583.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. 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 20.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 419 B

  • Original 77.6 kB
  • After minification 77.2 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. Press Ombudsman images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 471.6 kB

  • Original 583.0 kB
  • After minification 354.6 kB
  • After compression 111.4 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 471.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 25.2 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Pressombudsman.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (60%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Press Ombudsman. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pressombudsman.ie accessibility score

68

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

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

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

pressombudsman.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pressombudsman.ie SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Pressombudsman.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 Pressombudsman.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 Press Ombudsman. 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: