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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

dublincastle.ie

Dublin Castle | The nerve centre of historical power in Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

451 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

185 ms

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About Website

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

Discover the historic heart of Dublin. Open seven days a week. Dublin Castle is a key tourist attraction as well as a major government complex. Venue hire within the Castle is also available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dublincastle.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 451 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dublincastle.ie performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value920 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.315

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dublincastle.ie

451 ms

tundra.css

26 ms

dojo.css

37 ms

base.min.css

460 ms

style.min.css

362 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Dublincastle.ie, 53% (48 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 11% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (668 ms) belongs to the original domain Dublincastle.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

802.1 kB

After Optimization

694.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dublincastle.ie main page is 802.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 720.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 2.2 kB, which is 12% 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 15.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 720.5 kB
  • After minification 664.0 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. Dublin Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 20.4 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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

-81%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Dublincastle.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (76%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dublin Castle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dublincastle.ie

dublincastle.ie

451 ms

tundra.css

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26 ms

dojo.css

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37 ms

base.min.css

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460 ms

style.min.css

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362 ms

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187 ms

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144 ms

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42 ms

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108 ms

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115 ms

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249 ms

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101 ms

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597 ms

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93 ms

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184 ms

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475 ms

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104 ms

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148 ms

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Accessibility Review

dublincastle.ie accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

dublincastle.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

dublincastle.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

dublincastle.ie

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