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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

connectcentre.ie

CONNECT | Ireland’s research centre for Future Networks and Communications

Page Load Speed

12.8 sec in total

First Response

3.8 sec

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

667 ms

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About Website

Visit connectcentre.ie now to see the best up-to-date CONNECT Centre content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about connectcentre.ie

CONNECT is the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications, headquartered at Trinity College Dublin.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Connectcentre.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 3.8 sec and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

connectcentre.ie performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.228

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

connectcentre.ie

3767 ms

connectcentre.ie

504 ms

style.css

250 ms

owl.carousel.css

254 ms

classic-061523.css

19 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Connectcentre.ie, 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.rawgit.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Connectcentre.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 534.1 kB (10%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Connectcentre.ie main page is 5.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 48.8 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 10.1 kB, which is 21% 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 40.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 392.7 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. CONNECT Centre images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 96.9 kB

  • Original 288.9 kB
  • After minification 284.5 kB
  • After compression 192.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 96.9 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 51.6 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. Connectcentre.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (42%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CONNECT Centre. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

connectcentre.ie

connectcentre.ie

3767 ms

connectcentre.ie

connectcentre.ie

504 ms

style.css

style.css

250 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

254 ms

classic-061523.css

classic-061523.css

19 ms

style_2024.css

style_2024.css

255 ms

styles.css

styles.css

255 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

ctf-styles.min.css

257 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

20 ms

featherlight.min.css

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172 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

255 ms

mc-validate.js

mc-validate.js

38 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

261 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

383 ms

index.js

index.js

262 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

669 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

350 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

270 ms

featherlight.min.js

featherlight.min.js

39 ms

featherlight.min.js

featherlight.min.js

22 ms

featherlight.min.css

featherlight.min.css

10 ms

styles.css

styles.css

343 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

374 ms

sfi_flag.png

sfi_flag.png

251 ms

home_bg.gif

home_bg.gif

88 ms

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yellow-arrow.png

89 ms

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228 ms

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228 ms

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228 ms

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297 ms

sfi_logos_main_2024.gif

sfi_logos_main_2024.gif

580 ms

sfi_logos_mobile_2024.gif

sfi_logos_mobile_2024.gif

463 ms

logo.png

logo.png

300 ms

linkedin-icon-white.png

linkedin-icon-white.png

343 ms

X-icon-white.png

X-icon-white.png

391 ms

email-icon-white.png

email-icon-white.png

392 ms

youtube-icon-white.png

youtube-icon-white.png

432 ms

X-CONNECT-Website-ICON.png

X-CONNECT-Website-ICON.png

461 ms

youtube-icon.png

youtube-icon.png

478 ms

linkedin-icon.png

linkedin-icon.png

480 ms

Compasse-Regular.otf

Compasse-Regular.otf

637 ms

Compasse-Bold.otf

Compasse-Bold.otf

580 ms

analytics.js

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91 ms

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Madhuska-graphic-2.jpg

1323 ms

tonyevent.jpg

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3305 ms

connect-md-news-2.jpg

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1232 ms

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2048 ms

July2024.jpg

July2024.jpg

1067 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

js

js

60 ms

dark-bottom.css

dark-bottom.css

22 ms

Accessibility Review

connectcentre.ie accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

connectcentre.ie 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

connectcentre.ie SEO score

93

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

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 Connectcentre.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 Connectcentre.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of CONNECT Centre. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: