Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

dundalkdemocrat.ie

Home - Louth Live Dundalk Democrat

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dundalkdemocrat.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dundalkdemocrat.ie performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,000 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dundalkdemocrat.ie

346 ms

www.dundalkdemocrat.ie

1039 ms

jquery.min.js

63 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

75 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 218 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (156 requests) were addressed to the original Dundalkdemocrat.ie, 5% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (9 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Dundalkdemocrat.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 590.2 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

486.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Dundalkdemocrat.ie main page is 1.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 574.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 503.9 kB

  • Original 574.6 kB
  • After minification 496.8 kB
  • After compression 70.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 77.9 kB, which is 14% 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 503.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 86.3 kB

  • Original 501.7 kB
  • After minification 501.6 kB
  • After compression 415.4 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 86.3 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (36%)

Requests Now

198

After Optimization

126

The browser has sent 198 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dundalk Democrat. 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 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dundalkdemocrat.ie accessibility score

81

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

dundalkdemocrat.ie best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dundalkdemocrat.ie SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Dundalkdemocrat.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 Dundalkdemocrat.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 Dundalk Democrat. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: