Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

duchas.ie

dúchas.ie | National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

469 ms

duchas.ie screenshot

About Website

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

A project to digitize the Irish National Folklore Collection, one of the largest folklore collections in the world

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Key Findings

We analyzed Duchas.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

duchas.ie performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

90/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

duchas.ie

233 ms

en

85 ms

2.d80e3965.css

69 ms

IconBase.d93538e2.css

142 ms

3.088474f6.css

210 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Duchas.ie, 40% (18 requests) were made to Doras.gaois.ie and 4% (2 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Doras.gaois.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Duchas.ie main page is 1.7 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 32.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Duchas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 20.9 kB
  • After compression 14.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 6.5 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. Duchas.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Duchas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

duchas.ie accessibility score

96

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

duchas.ie 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

duchas.ie SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Duchas.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 Duchas.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 Duchas. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: