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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

emeraldstar.ie

Boat hire | Canal boating holidays| Le Boat

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

38 ms

Resources Loaded

6.9 sec

Page Rendered

719 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Emeraldstar content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about emeraldstar.ie

Boating holidays by Le Boat. We're the No:1 provider of boating holidays on the beautiful rivers, lakes and canals of Europe and Canada. Are you on board?

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Key Findings

We analyzed Emeraldstar.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 38 ms and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

emeraldstar.ie performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.102

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

emeraldstar.ie

38 ms

www.emeraldstar.ie

638 ms

system.base.css

418 ms

system.messages.css

397 ms

system.theme.css

416 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (118 requests) were addressed to the original Emeraldstar.ie, 1% (1 request) were made to Try.abtasty.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Emeraldstar.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 709.0 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

915.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Emeraldstar.ie main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 736.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 671.6 kB

  • Original 736.2 kB
  • After minification 736.2 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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 671.6 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 563.1 kB
  • After minification 563.1 kB

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. Emeraldstar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 296.1 kB
  • After minification 293.5 kB
  • After compression 262.0 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 34.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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. Emeraldstar.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (79%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Emeraldstar. 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 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

emeraldstar.ie

emeraldstar.ie

38 ms

www.emeraldstar.ie

www.emeraldstar.ie

638 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

418 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

397 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

416 ms

panopoly-jquery-ui-theme.css

panopoly-jquery-ui-theme.css

410 ms

jquery.ui.menu.min.css

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418 ms

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jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.css

481 ms

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.css

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.css

791 ms

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views_slideshow.css

790 ms

field.css

field.css

809 ms

node.css

node.css

813 ms

radix_layouts.css

radix_layouts.css

803 ms

search.css

search.css

871 ms

views.css

views.css

1171 ms

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1182 ms

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1553 ms

flexslider_img.css

flexslider_img.css

1577 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

1603 ms

d2_geo_notification.css

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1601 ms

leboat.style.en-ie.css

leboat.style.en-ie.css

1741 ms

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feefo-reviews.en-ie.css

1667 ms

gallery.en-ie.css

gallery.en-ie.css

1960 ms

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c9599943e17e562dd3ef830002f712c0.js

98 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

2069 ms

jquery-extend-3.4.0.js

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1988 ms

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jquery-html-prefilter-3.5.0-backport.js

1975 ms

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jquery.once.js

2077 ms

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drupal.js

2101 ms

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modernizr-custom.js

2356 ms

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jquery_browser.js

2363 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

2370 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

40 ms

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ls.aspectratio.min.js

ls.aspectratio.min.js

2449 ms

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2327 ms

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jquery.ui.position-1.13.0-backport.js

2315 ms

jquery.ui.menu.min.js

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2341 ms

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

2417 ms

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js

jquery.ui.datepicker.min.js

2442 ms

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2375 ms

views_slideshow.js

views_slideshow.js

2314 ms

jalc.min.js

jalc.min.js

2340 ms

form-single-submit.js

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2360 ms

entityreference.js

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2420 ms

holiday_search_bar.js

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2626 ms

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2007 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

2090 ms

purify.min.js

purify.min.js

2029 ms

colorbox.js

colorbox.js

2306 ms

colorbox_style.js

colorbox_style.js

2352 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

2384 ms

flexslider_views_slideshow.js

flexslider_views_slideshow.js

2343 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

2096 ms

flip.js

flip.js

2240 ms

reverse-itinerary.js

reverse-itinerary.js

2277 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

2444 ms

jquery.touchSwipe.js

jquery.touchSwipe.js

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slick.min.js

slick.min.js

2288 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

81 ms

locale.datepicker.js

locale.datepicker.js

2082 ms

masonry.pkgd.js

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2256 ms

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banner.js

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2365 ms

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2314 ms

picture.min.js

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2287 ms

quick-search.js

quick-search.js

2370 ms

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2337 ms

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2074 ms

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carousel.js

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2163 ms

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2302 ms

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2225 ms

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2314 ms

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2478 ms

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2377 ms

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2181 ms

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88 ms

logo

logo

254 ms

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coloured-border-en-ie.svg

1186 ms

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1226 ms

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1206 ms

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destinations.png

destinations.png

1240 ms

fleet.png

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1262 ms

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1285 ms

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1236 ms

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1218 ms

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5stars.png

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989 ms

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newsletter-button.jpg

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brochure-button.jpg

900 ms

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book-button.jpg

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489 ms

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648 ms

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649 ms

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609 ms

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589 ms

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575 ms

Accessibility Review

emeraldstar.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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

emeraldstar.ie best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

emeraldstar.ie SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Emeraldstar.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 Emeraldstar.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

emeraldstar.ie

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