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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

carrolls.ie

Carrolls Irish Gifts - Irish Clothing, Gifts, Jewellery & Hampers Direct from Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

493 ms

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About Website

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Carrolls Irish Gifts are the leading retailer of quality Irish Clothing, Gifts, Jewellery & Hampers. We stock many leading Irish brands including Guinness, Carraig Donn and Newbridge Silverware. We ar...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Carrolls.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

carrolls.ie performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,450 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

carrolls.ie

239 ms

carrolls.ie

291 ms

usa

252 ms

script-tag.js

21 ms

global.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Carrolls.ie, 50% (33 requests) were made to Carrollsirishgifts.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (291 ms) belongs to the original domain Carrolls.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 184.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Carrolls.ie main page is 3.0 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. 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. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 182.3 kB

  • Original 203.9 kB
  • After minification 147.8 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 56.1 kB, which is 28% 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 182.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Carrolls images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 347.4 kB
  • After minification 347.4 kB
  • After compression 345.7 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 259 B

  • Original 228.2 kB
  • After minification 228.2 kB
  • After compression 228.0 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. Carrolls.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (52%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Carrolls. 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 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

carrolls.ie

carrolls.ie

239 ms

carrolls.ie

carrolls.ie

291 ms

usa

usa

252 ms

script-tag.js

script-tag.js

21 ms

global.css

global.css

31 ms

layout.css

layout.css

25 ms

frontanalytics.min.js

frontanalytics.min.js

55 ms

js

js

54 ms

main.js

main.js

56 ms

content.js

content.js

52 ms

content.css

content.css

54 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

56 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

56 ms

sbgrid.min.js

sbgrid.min.js

199 ms

css

css

41 ms

css

css

61 ms

css

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67 ms

css

css

67 ms

css

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78 ms

css

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76 ms

rating-bar.js

rating-bar.js

103 ms

dist.js

dist.js

120 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

65 ms

snippet.js

snippet.js

88 ms

dwanalytics-22.2.js

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18 ms

dwac-21.7.js

dwac-21.7.js

28 ms

gretel.min.js

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70 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

135 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

259 ms

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76 ms

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svg-sprite.svg

153 ms

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autumn-calling-banner-usa.jpg

39 ms

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autumn-calling-banner-mobile-usa.jpg

27 ms

gifts-for-her-USA.jpg

gifts-for-her-USA.jpg

26 ms

gifts-for-him-usa.jpg

gifts-for-him-usa.jpg

33 ms

gift-sfor-little-ones.jpg

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39 ms

aran-knitwear-skinny-banner-usa.jpg

aran-knitwear-skinny-banner-usa.jpg

55 ms

jewellery.jpg

jewellery.jpg

56 ms

foodies.jpg

foodies.jpg

91 ms

guinness.jpg

guinness.jpg

56 ms

accessories.jpg

accessories.jpg

92 ms

spring-edit-hampers-skinny-banner.jpg

spring-edit-hampers-skinny-banner.jpg

98 ms

new-arrivals.jpg

new-arrivals.jpg

99 ms

gifts-for-the-home.jpg

gifts-for-the-home.jpg

97 ms

wellness.jpg

wellness.jpg

100 ms

thank-you.jpg

thank-you.jpg

100 ms

personalised-gifts-skinny-banner-usa.jpg

personalised-gifts-skinny-banner-usa.jpg

150 ms

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150 ms

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150 ms

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230 ms

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229 ms

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230 ms

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32 ms

index.html

index.html

178 ms

location

location

175 ms

widget

widget

92 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

195 ms

style-cf.css

style-cf.css

201 ms

style.css

style.css

131 ms

style.css

style.css

105 ms

messageUsButton.js

messageUsButton.js

32 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

57 ms

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25 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

67 ms

reviewsio-logo.svg

reviewsio-logo.svg

18 ms

reviews-widget-icons.ttf

reviews-widget-icons.ttf

28 ms

Accessibility Review

carrolls.ie accessibility score

91

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

carrolls.ie best practices score

67

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

carrolls.ie SEO score

86

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

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

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 Carrolls.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 Carrolls.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

carrolls.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Carrolls. 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: