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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,680 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.0 s

0/100

10%

waterfordlive.ie

389 ms

www.waterfordlive.ie

463 ms

jquery.min.js

129 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

123 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 210 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (155 requests) were addressed to the original Waterfordlive.ie, 5% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (9 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterfordlive.ie.

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

552.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Waterfordlive.ie main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 585.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 512.8 kB

Original 584.7 kB
After minification 506.7 kB
After compression 72.0 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 78.0 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 512.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 104.9 kB

Original 585.2 kB
After minification 585.0 kB
After compression 480.2 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 104.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Now

191

After Optimization

123

The browser has sent 191 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterford Live. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Waterfordlive.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 Waterfordlive.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 Waterford Live. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: