Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

eircom.ie

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Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

279 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

51 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eircom.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 279 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eircom.ie performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,930 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eircom.ie

279 ms

www.eir.ie

969 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

88 ms

otSDKStub.js

107 ms

jquery-2.2.4.min.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eircom.ie, 61% (11 requests) were made to Eir.ie and 17% (3 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Eir.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.3 MB (77%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Eircom.ie main page is 5.6 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 44.8 kB
  • After minification 43.5 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. 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 35.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 4.3 MB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.5 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 4.3 MB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (81%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eircom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eircom.ie accessibility score

87

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

eircom.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

eircom.ie SEO score

74

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eircom.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Eircom.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 Eircom. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: