Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

dublincityramblers.com

The Dublin City Ramblers - The Dublin City Ramblers

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

623 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

822 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to The Dublin City Ramblers website. We are an irish band set up over 50 years. Contact us on 01 4501244 for bookings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dublincityramblers.com page load time and found that the first response time was 623 ms and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dublincityramblers.com performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dublincityramblers.com

623 ms

css

29 ms

style.css

327 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

385 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

383 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Dublincityramblers.com, 22% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Dublincityramblers.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 668.7 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Dublincityramblers.com main page is 2.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 170.0 kB

  • Original 201.8 kB
  • After minification 199.4 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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 170.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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 City Ramblers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 414.6 kB

  • Original 573.9 kB
  • After minification 571.6 kB
  • After compression 159.3 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 414.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 15.4 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Dublincityramblers.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (40%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dublin City Ramblers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dublincityramblers.com accessibility score

79

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

dublincityramblers.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dublincityramblers.com SEO score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Dublincityramblers.com 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 Dublincityramblers.com 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 City Ramblers. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: