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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

comhaltas.com

Comhaltas Globally Promotes Traditional Irish Music Dance Culture for Students, Educators, Visitors, Musicians & Journalists

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

203 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

200 ms

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About Website

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Comhaltas promotes traditional Irish music and culture around the world. We are best known for teaching Irish traditional music through our global network of branches and for running the Fleadh Cheoil...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comhaltas.com page load time and found that the first response time was 203 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comhaltas.com performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

comhaltas.com

203 ms

comhaltas.ie

284 ms

comhaltas.ie

343 ms

screen.css

25 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

74 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Comhaltas.com, 97% (32 requests) were made to Comhaltas.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Comhaltas.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

169.0 kB

After Optimization

144.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Comhaltas.com main page is 169.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 139.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. 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 11.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 139.6 kB
  • After minification 126.6 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. Comhaltas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 6.6 kB
  • After minification 6.6 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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. Comhaltas.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (40%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Comhaltas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

comhaltas.com

comhaltas.com

203 ms

comhaltas.ie

comhaltas.ie

284 ms

comhaltas.ie

comhaltas.ie

343 ms

screen.css

screen.css

25 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

rocket-loader.min.js

74 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

78 ms

go_button.gif

go_button.gif

319 ms

banjo.jpg

banjo.jpg

483 ms

forstudents_home.jpg

forstudents_home.jpg

317 ms

forvisitors_home.jpg

forvisitors_home.jpg

314 ms

formusicians_home.jpg

formusicians_home.jpg

290 ms

forjournalists_home.jpg

forjournalists_home.jpg

317 ms

cl639_5_t.png

cl639_5_t.png

573 ms

map_thumb_home.gif

map_thumb_home.gif

580 ms

chg.png

chg.png

679 ms

dfat.png

dfat.png

584 ms

glossary_icon.gif

glossary_icon.gif

548 ms

ornamental_bg.gif

ornamental_bg.gif

705 ms

content_bg_home.gif

content_bg_home.gif

797 ms

home_message.gif

home_message.gif

801 ms

home_message_learnmore.gif

home_message_learnmore.gif

815 ms

border_ab8.gif

border_ab8.gif

826 ms

landings_row1_bg.gif

landings_row1_bg.gif

901 ms

forstudents_headline.gif

forstudents_headline.gif

983 ms

forvisitors_headline.gif

forvisitors_headline.gif

1077 ms

formusicians_headline.gif

formusicians_headline.gif

1086 ms

forjournalists_headline.gif

forjournalists_headline.gif

1099 ms

yellow_diamond_bullet.gif

yellow_diamond_bullet.gif

1112 ms

nav_anchor_bg.gif

nav_anchor_bg.gif

1219 ms

footerwrap_border.gif

footerwrap_border.gif

1274 ms

footer_border.gif

footer_border.gif

1081 ms

print.css

print.css

293 ms

functions.js

functions.js

289 ms

Accessibility Review

comhaltas.com accessibility score

60

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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.

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

comhaltas.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

comhaltas.com SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

High

Document doesn't have a valid hreflang

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 Comhaltas.com 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 Comhaltas.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

comhaltas.com

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