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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

digitalskillnet.ie

Technology Ireland DIGITAL Skillnet - Technology Ireland DIGITAL Skillnet

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

214 ms

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About Website

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

The national training and development network for the software and digital technology sector in Ireland. We provide grant-aided fees for our programmes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digitalskillnet.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digitalskillnet.ie performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

digitalskillnet.ie

277 ms

www.digitalskillnet.ie

1841 ms

style.css

90 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

180 ms

projekktor.style.css

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Digitalskillnet.ie, 15% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Digitalskillnet.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 339.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Digitalskillnet.ie main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

  • Original 67.0 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 18.0 kB, which is 27% 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 55.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 986.2 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. DIGITAL Skillnet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 253.3 kB

  • Original 458.0 kB
  • After minification 416.0 kB
  • After compression 204.7 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 253.3 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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. Digitalskillnet.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.7 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (67%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DIGITAL Skillnet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

digitalskillnet.ie

digitalskillnet.ie

277 ms

www.digitalskillnet.ie

www.digitalskillnet.ie

1841 ms

style.css

style.css

90 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

180 ms

projekktor.style.css

projekktor.style.css

264 ms

jquery.selectBox.css

jquery.selectBox.css

267 ms

validationEngine.jquery.css

validationEngine.jquery.css

266 ms

responsive-menu.css

responsive-menu.css

268 ms

style_base.css

style_base.css

267 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

439 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

436 ms

projekktor.min.js

projekktor.min.js

527 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

356 ms

responsive-menu.js

responsive-menu.js

356 ms

utils.js

utils.js

355 ms

jquery.validationEngine-en.js

jquery.validationEngine-en.js

454 ms

jquery.validationEngine.js

jquery.validationEngine.js

540 ms

jquery.selectBox.min.js

jquery.selectBox.min.js

454 ms

jquery.carouFredSel-6.1.0-packed.js

jquery.carouFredSel-6.1.0-packed.js

609 ms

js

js

53 ms

media-queries.css

media-queries.css

539 ms

loader.js

loader.js

50 ms

script.js

script.js

302 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

113 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

139 ms

insight.min.js

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125 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

161 ms

logo.png

logo.png

160 ms

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logo.png

160 ms

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469 ms

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159 ms

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1513 ms

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869 ms

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615 ms

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616 ms

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611 ms

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883 ms

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915 ms

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990 ms

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988 ms

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1196 ms

fbevents.js

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146 ms

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288 ms

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985 ms

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1057 ms

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134 ms

analytics.js

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252 ms

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1121 ms

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1130 ms

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226 ms

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163 ms

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129 ms

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19 ms

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25 ms

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144 ms

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195 ms

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34 ms

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32 ms

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79 ms

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88 ms

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44 ms

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83 ms

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27 ms

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74 ms

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78 ms

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88 ms

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91 ms

Accessibility Review

digitalskillnet.ie accessibility score

78

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

digitalskillnet.ie best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

digitalskillnet.ie SEO score

69

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

digitalskillnet.ie

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