Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

blarney.com

Irish Gifts | Aran Gifts from Ireland | Irish Crystal | Blarney

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

194 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

646 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blarney.com page load time and found that the first response time was 194 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blarney.com performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,370 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.341

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blarney.com

194 ms

www.blarney.com

827 ms

lemur.css

151 ms

lemur_enhanced.css

117 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Blarney.com, 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.addwish.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (827 ms) belongs to the original domain Blarney.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 751.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Blarney.com main page is 4.0 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. 75% 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. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 64.8 kB

  • Original 76.6 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 10.3 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 64.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 32.6 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Blarney images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 508.1 kB

  • Original 752.5 kB
  • After minification 724.5 kB
  • After compression 244.4 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 508.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 145.8 kB

  • Original 178.9 kB
  • After minification 149.3 kB
  • After compression 33.1 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. Blarney.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 145.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (37%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blarney. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blarney.com accessibility score

61

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

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

Tables and lists

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

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

blarney.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blarney.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blarney.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blarney.com 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 Blarney. 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: