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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

egf.ie

EU Funds - European Structural and Investment Funds in Ireland

Page Load Speed

20.7 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

20 sec

Page Rendered

327 ms

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About Website

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The EU provides funding for a range of projects including education, research, employment, regional development, the environment, agriculture, and the marine.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Egf.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 20.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

egf.ie performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value49.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.134

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

egf.ie

346 ms

eufunds.ie

6679 ms

style.min.css

639 ms

style.css

299 ms

styles.css

296 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Egf.ie, 68% (63 requests) were made to Eufunds.ie and 22% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.7 sec) relates to the external source Eufunds.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (46%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Egf.ie main page is 5.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 86.6 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 107.9 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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 86.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 105.1 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Egf images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 523.1 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 1.3 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 775.6 kB

  • Original 897.9 kB
  • After minification 825.3 kB
  • After compression 122.3 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. Egf.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 775.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (66%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Egf. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

egf.ie

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Accessibility Review

egf.ie accessibility score

84

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

egf.ie best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

egf.ie SEO score

86

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

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 Egf.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 Egf.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

egf.ie

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Egf. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: