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consumeraffairs.ie

Innovate Solutions - Consumer Research and Sensory Assessment

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

732 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

194 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Consumeraffairs.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 732 ms and then it took 1.3 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

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Network Requests Diagram

consumeraffairs.ie

732 ms

Style.css

235 ms

Home_logo.gif

354 ms

Home_heading.gif

365 ms

Home_image1.jpg

634 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Consumeraffairs.ie and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (732 ms) belongs to the original domain Consumeraffairs.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.1 kB (38%)

Content Size

45.6 kB

After Optimization

28.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Consumeraffairs.ie main page is 45.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 23.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.6 kB, which is 13% 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 15.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 361 B

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 23.3 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. Consumer Affairs images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 344 B

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. Consumeraffairs.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (38%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Consumer Affairs. 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.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Consumeraffairs.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 Consumeraffairs.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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