Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

chains.ie

Chains Ltd. The best Ireland and Dublin lifting equipment, test, safety, and certification experts since 1960

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

412 ms

Resources Loaded

905 ms

Page Rendered

326 ms

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About Website

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Chains Ltd. The best Ireland and Dublin lifting equipment, test, safety, and certification experts since 1960

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chains.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 412 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chains.ie performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chains.ie

412 ms

bootstrap.min.css

319 ms

styles.css

156 ms

page.php

194 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

316 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Chains.ie, 33% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 7% (2 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (492 ms) belongs to the original domain Chains.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

580.9 kB

After Optimization

564.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Chains.ie main page is 580.9 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 509.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 6.4 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 1.5 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 5.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 509.4 kB
  • After minification 500.6 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. Chains images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 42.7 kB
  • After minification 42.7 kB
  • After compression 42.7 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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. Chains.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (31%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

chains.ie accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

chains.ie best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chains.ie SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chains.ie 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 Chains.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 description is not detected on the main page of Chains. 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: