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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ulf.ie

UL Foundation ¦ UL ¦ University of Limerick Foundation

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

351 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

About Website

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UL Foundation -Est 1989, the University of Limerick Foundation fund raises for the University from private individuals, institutions&business

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ulf.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 351 ms and then it took 4.6 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

ulf.ie performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ulf.ie

351 ms

ulfoundation.com

3341 ms

script.js

35 ms

css

31 ms

style.min.css

512 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ulf.ie, 68% (23 requests) were made to Ulfoundation.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Ulfoundation.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 548.4 kB (58%)

Content Size

939.4 kB

After Optimization

391.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ulf.ie main page is 939.4 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. CSS take 287.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 165.9 kB

  • Original 186.7 kB
  • After minification 179.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 165.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 253.4 kB
  • After minification 236.8 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. UL F images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 115.2 kB

  • Original 211.8 kB
  • After minification 211.8 kB
  • After compression 96.5 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 115.2 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 250.7 kB

  • Original 287.5 kB
  • After minification 273.4 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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. Ulf.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 250.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (66%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UL F. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ulf.ie accessibility score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

ulf.ie best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ulf.ie SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Ulf.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 Ulf.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 data is detected on the main page of UL F. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: