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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

winesdirect.ie

Wines Direct - Buy Artisan Wine Online - Free Nationwide Delivery

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

About Website

Welcome to winesdirect.ie homepage info - get ready to check Wines Direct best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about winesdirect.ie

Choose online from over 350 exclusive artisan wines independently made and directly sourced from 13 countries. Find specialist mixed cases, gifts or simply create your own. 48 hour delivery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Winesdirect.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

winesdirect.ie performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.271

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

winesdirect.ie

1056 ms

js

83 ms

jquery-3.4.1.js

26 ms

js.cookie.min.js

70 ms

global.js

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Winesdirect.ie, 6% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 4% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Winesdirect.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 979.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Winesdirect.ie main page is 6.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 491.2 kB

  • Original 585.6 kB
  • After minification 532.0 kB
  • After compression 94.4 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 491.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 256.3 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Wines Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 227.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 820.8 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 227.6 kB or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 49.1 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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. Winesdirect.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (79%)

Requests Now

139

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 139 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wines Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 50 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

winesdirect.ie accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

winesdirect.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

winesdirect.ie SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Winesdirect.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 Winesdirect.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 Wines Direct. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: