Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

dublin.ie

Dublin.ie - Official Site for News, Information and Events

Page Load Speed

78.9 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

48.7 sec

Page Rendered

27.8 sec

dublin.ie screenshot

About Website

Welcome to dublin.ie homepage info - get ready to check Dublin best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about dublin.ie

Dublin.ie was designed to celebrate the very essence of Dublin; the people, places and things that make Dublin truly unique as a place to live, work and learn in.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dublin.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 76.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 23 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

dublin.ie performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dublin.ie

2451 ms

analytics.js

2300 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

989 ms

normalize.min.css

3636 ms

main.min.css

4082 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 32% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Dublin.ie, 31% (32 requests) were made to Cdn.dublin.ie and 6% (6 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (22.9 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 679.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Dublin.ie main page is 3.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 98.1 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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 76.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Dublin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 465.7 kB

  • Original 766.9 kB
  • After minification 758.6 kB
  • After compression 301.2 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 465.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 146.3 kB
  • After minification 128.9 kB
  • After compression 26.1 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. Dublin.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (56%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dublin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dublin.ie accessibility score

85

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

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dublin.ie best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dublin.ie SEO score

85

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Dublin. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: