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comparecreditcards.ie

Credit Cards | Compare and Apply for a Card Online

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comparecreditcards.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

comparecreditcards.ie

324 ms

www.comparecreditcards.ie

451 ms

styles.css

233 ms

adsbygoogle.js

9 ms

ca-pub-8356125244081085.js

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Comparecreditcards.ie, 22% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 14% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (731 ms) belongs to the original domain Comparecreditcards.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 25.6 kB (37%)

Content Size

69.5 kB

After Optimization

43.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Comparecreditcards.ie main page is 69.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 28.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 16.7 kB
  • After minification 14.0 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 2.7 kB, which is 16% 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 12.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 295 B

  • Original 17.3 kB
  • After minification 17.0 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. Compare Credit Cards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 28.0 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 6.6 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Comparecreditcards.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (45%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Compare Credit Cards. 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.

SEO Factors

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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 Comparecreditcards.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 Comparecreditcards.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 Compare Credit Cards. 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: