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A 16th Century Castle Home To a Science Centre and Observatory
Visit bco.ieWe analyzed Bco.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 24 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.
bco.ie performance score
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Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Bco.ie, 16% (20 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (17.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bco.ie.
Page size can be reduced by 49.1 kB (5%)
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In fact, the total size of Bco.ie main page is 924.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 855.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 33.8 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 7.8 kB, which is 19% 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 33.8 kB or 82% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 7.4 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. Bco images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 1.1 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.
Potential reduce by 6.8 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. Bco.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 79% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (39%)
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The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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bco.ie accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
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.
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Issue
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Form elements do not have associated labels
Links do not have a discernible name
bco.ie best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
bco.ie SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bco.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 Bco.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.
bco.ie
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bco. 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: