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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ecclesiastical.ie

Specialist Insurance & Financial Services | Ecclesiastical Ireland

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

607 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

303 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecclesiastical.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 607 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ecclesiastical.ie performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value36.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.067

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecclesiastical.ie

607 ms

gtm.js

68 ms

0.31310fd2aeecc9dcbad7.css

410 ms

index.31310fd2aeecc9dcbad7.css

620 ms

7tiLrapDbRY

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Ecclesiastical.ie, 21% (6 requests) were made to Youtube-nocookie.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecclesiastical.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 255.9 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecclesiastical.ie 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 57.6 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 16.8 kB, which is 23% 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 57.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 60.1 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. Ecclesiastical images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 119.9 kB

  • Original 652.2 kB
  • After minification 652.2 kB
  • After compression 532.3 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 119.9 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 18.4 kB

  • Original 131.3 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 112.9 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. Ecclesiastical.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (30%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecclesiastical. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ecclesiastical.ie

ecclesiastical.ie

607 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

68 ms

0.31310fd2aeecc9dcbad7.css

0.31310fd2aeecc9dcbad7.css

410 ms

index.31310fd2aeecc9dcbad7.css

index.31310fd2aeecc9dcbad7.css

620 ms

7tiLrapDbRY

7tiLrapDbRY

124 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

31 ms

vendors~index.d145a3169ca4d4c09f28.js

vendors~index.d145a3169ca4d4c09f28.js

2775 ms

index.e07482ca36ad849d3aec.js

index.e07482ca36ad849d3aec.js

705 ms

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ecclesiastical-logo_tcm97-58454.png

1135 ms

m4g-header-nav-logo-ie_tcm97-42886.png

m4g-header-nav-logo-ie_tcm97-42886.png

1648 ms

home-hero-new_tcm97-59744.jpg

home-hero-new_tcm97-59744.jpg

2506 ms

MFG-CTA_tcm97-42888.jpg

MFG-CTA_tcm97-42888.jpg

814 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

10 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

23 ms

base.js

base.js

45 ms

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XSOeYOgfx9Jh0OnrBRoGZITK3RITQeOfJZOsiQTg9Ss.js

99 ms

embed.js

embed.js

41 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

33 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc-.woff

36 ms

Create

Create

91 ms

e-scooters-row_tcm96-75274_tcm97-77629.jpg

e-scooters-row_tcm96-75274_tcm97-77629.jpg

716 ms

slips-trips-sign_tcm97-39736.jpg

slips-trips-sign_tcm97-39736.jpg

1579 ms

church-door_tcm97-40498.jpg

church-door_tcm97-40498.jpg

2204 ms

safeguarding_tcm97-40460.jpg

safeguarding_tcm97-40460.jpg

2402 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

26 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

18 ms

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c93035b45c12b25fda4d5ef429416da4.woff

1234 ms

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fee66e712a8a08eef5805a46892932ad.woff

1798 ms

log_event

log_event

15 ms

Accessibility Review

ecclesiastical.ie accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

ecclesiastical.ie best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ecclesiastical.ie SEO score

86

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Ecclesiastical.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 Ecclesiastical.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

ecclesiastical.ie

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