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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% 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

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

dit.ie

TU Dublin | Technological University Dublin

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

338 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

773 ms

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About Website

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

We provide pathways to graduation from apprenticeship to PhD. Our 30,000+ students learn in a practice-based environment informed by the latest research and enabled by technological advances.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dit.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 338 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dit.ie performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,350 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.362

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dit.ie

338 ms

www.dit.ie

395 ms

www.tudublin.ie

478 ms

main.min.css

147 ms

t4extras.css

211 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Dit.ie, 56% (43 requests) were made to Tudublin.ie and 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.curator.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (691 ms) relates to the external source Tudublin.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

904.5 kB

After Optimization

836.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dit.ie main page is 904.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 571.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 46.3 kB
  • After minification 37.4 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 8.8 kB, which is 19% 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 37.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 571.3 kB
  • After minification 563.9 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. Dit images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 237.7 kB
  • After minification 232.8 kB
  • After compression 220.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.2 kB
  • After compression 42.8 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. Dit.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (62%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dit. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dit.ie

dit.ie

338 ms

www.dit.ie

www.dit.ie

395 ms

www.tudublin.ie

www.tudublin.ie

478 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

147 ms

t4extras.css

t4extras.css

211 ms

inhouse.css

inhouse.css

215 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

41 ms

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67 ms

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44 ms

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39 ms

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444 ms

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4652eb2cb2.js

104 ms

main.min.js

main.min.js

423 ms

t4extras.js

t4extras.js

306 ms

emergency.js

emergency.js

306 ms

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105 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

106 ms

hotjar-2790806.js

hotjar-2790806.js

204 ms

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194 ms

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menu-white.svg

177 ms

tu-dublin-logo.svg

tu-dublin-logo.svg

178 ms

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times-white.svg

179 ms

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174 ms

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175 ms

cao-hub-hero-mobile.jpg

cao-hub-hero-mobile.jpg

395 ms

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arrow-long-white.svg

394 ms

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group-presentation-central-quad-building-header-mobile-480x400.jpg

418 ms

students-blanchardstown-canteen-header-mobile_480x400.jpg

students-blanchardstown-canteen-header-mobile_480x400.jpg

393 ms

mechanical-engineering-students-formula-one-car-hero-mobile.jpg

mechanical-engineering-students-formula-one-car-hero-mobile.jpg

393 ms

tudublin-brand-graphic-purple-mobile.jpg

tudublin-brand-graphic-purple-mobile.jpg

394 ms

tu-dublin-dance-society-east-quad-mobile.jpg

tu-dublin-dance-society-east-quad-mobile.jpg

443 ms

students-blanchardstown-canteen-featurebox.jpg

students-blanchardstown-canteen-featurebox.jpg

510 ms

students-laughing-and-looking-at-laptop-feature.jpg

students-laughing-and-looking-at-laptop-feature.jpg

513 ms

two-students-laughing-and-working-on-laptops-feature.jpg

two-students-laughing-and-working-on-laptops-feature.jpg

446 ms

current-students-on-campus-tu-dublin-grangegorman.jpg

current-students-on-campus-tu-dublin-grangegorman.jpg

445 ms

tu-mark-outline.svg

tu-mark-outline.svg

479 ms

NDP_Home.jpg

NDP_Home.jpg

514 ms

finalists.jpg

finalists.jpg

588 ms

OpenDayHome.jpg

OpenDayHome.jpg

513 ms

CrystallographerHome.jpg

CrystallographerHome.jpg

553 ms

tu-dublin-logo-blue.svg

tu-dublin-logo-blue.svg

580 ms

eut-logo-106x50.png

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584 ms

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586 ms

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587 ms

AIS-logo-irish-generic-colour2-logos.png

AIS-logo-irish-generic-colour2-logos.png

622 ms

ORCID-Logo.png

ORCID-Logo.png

649 ms

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twitter-x.svg

653 ms

instagram.svg

instagram.svg

651 ms

facebook.svg

facebook.svg

654 ms

youtube.svg

youtube.svg

655 ms

linkedin.svg

linkedin.svg

691 ms

embedr-loader.js

embedr-loader.js

52 ms

visuelt-regular.woff

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689 ms

tiktok-102.svg

tiktok-102.svg

666 ms

Prophet-Bold.woff

Prophet-Bold.woff

654 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

71 ms

embedr-47ad26da5deade67d472950b12c94b6c.js

embedr-47ad26da5deade67d472950b12c94b6c.js

76 ms

js

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68 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

256 ms

hotjar-2790806.js

hotjar-2790806.js

47 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

220 ms

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168 ms

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276 ms

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268 ms

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557 ms

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226 ms

curator.embed.css

curator.embed.css

109 ms

f6cf863d-37d2-4e07-8aeb-178923c68f09.css

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89 ms

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21 ms

clarity.js

clarity.js

19 ms

curator.embed.js

curator.embed.js

7 ms

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18 ms

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adsct

195 ms

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108 ms

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17 ms

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c.gif

8 ms

Accessibility Review

dit.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

dit.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dit.ie SEO score

83

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Dit.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 Dit.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

dit.ie

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