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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

discoverireland.ie

Plan Your Next Adventure with Discover Ireland

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

286 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

discoverireland.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Discover Ireland content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about discoverireland.ie

Explore Ireland with its epic mountain peaks, magnificent coastlines, lofty lighthouses and rich greenery. Plan your holiday at home now.

Visit discoverireland.ie

Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverireland.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 286 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoverireland.ie performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

30/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,530 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoverireland.ie

286 ms

www.discoverireland.ie

732 ms

GetResource.ashx

469 ms

GetCSS.aspx

199 ms

GetCSS.aspx

295 ms

Our browser made a total of 197 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (89 requests) were addressed to the original Discoverireland.ie, 12% (23 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 11% (21 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Discoverireland.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (19%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverireland.ie main page is 6.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 134.5 kB

  • Original 181.1 kB
  • After minification 160.4 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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 20.7 kB, which is 11% 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 134.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 340.7 kB

  • Original 5.1 MB
  • After minification 4.8 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. Discover Ireland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 543.3 kB

  • Original 790.3 kB
  • After minification 720.7 kB
  • After compression 247.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 543.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 213.6 kB

  • Original 247.2 kB
  • After minification 211.4 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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. Discoverireland.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (41%)

Requests Now

193

After Optimization

113

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 193 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover Ireland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

discoverireland.ie accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

discoverireland.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

discoverireland.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

discoverireland.ie

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