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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 79% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ctts.ie

The Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS)

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

256 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

359 ms

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About Website

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

The Centre for Translation and Textual Studies is a research centre in DCU that is home to members united by their focus on language and translation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctts.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 256 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ctts.ie performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ctts.ie

256 ms

ctts.ie

435 ms

style.min.css

681 ms

timetable.css

434 ms

style.min.css

775 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Ctts.ie, 73% (19 requests) were made to Ctts.b-cdn.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (999 ms) relates to the external source Ctts.b-cdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.4 kB (31%)

Content Size

701.3 kB

After Optimization

486.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ctts.ie main page is 701.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 290.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 100.4 kB

  • Original 117.7 kB
  • After minification 115.0 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. 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 100.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27 B

  • Original 131.7 kB
  • After minification 131.6 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. CTTS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 161.0 kB
  • After minification 161.0 kB
  • After compression 161.0 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

-39%

Potential reduce by 114.0 kB

  • Original 290.9 kB
  • After minification 290.8 kB
  • After compression 177.0 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. Ctts.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 114.0 kB or 39% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (45%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CTTS. 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 CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ctts.ie

ctts.ie

256 ms

ctts.ie

ctts.ie

435 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

681 ms

timetable.css

timetable.css

434 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

775 ms

gravityforms.min.css

gravityforms.min.css

663 ms

style.css

style.css

416 ms

Defaults.css

Defaults.css

382 ms

ultimate.min.css

ultimate.min.css

572 ms

front.css

front.css

507 ms

css

css

76 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

571 ms

wp_social_ninja_tw.css

wp_social_ninja_tw.css

743 ms

89b705a8e482a627db5abf2a58126eac.js

89b705a8e482a627db5abf2a58126eac.js

999 ms

home_box_01.jpg

home_box_01.jpg

84 ms

home_box_02.jpg

home_box_02.jpg

143 ms

home_box_03.jpg

home_box_03.jpg

308 ms

home_box_04.jpg

home_box_04.jpg

252 ms

logo_ctts_new_05.png

logo_ctts_new_05.png

29 ms

dcu_logo.png

dcu_logo.png

28 ms

hero_03.jpg

hero_03.jpg

30 ms

hero_06.jpg

hero_06.jpg

31 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

187 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

349 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

355 ms

fa-light-300.woff

fa-light-300.woff

469 ms

Accessibility Review

ctts.ie accessibility score

92

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

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

Best Practices

ctts.ie best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ctts.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ctts.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 Ctts.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

ctts.ie

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