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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

emp.ie

EMP | Music, Movie, TV & Gaming Merch | Alternative Clothing

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

661 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing EMP content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about emp.ie

Europe's #1 for rock & metal band merchandise, movie, TV & gaming merch & alternative fashion. 25,000 items from hundreds of bands, brands & franchises!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Emp.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 3 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

emp.ie performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.9 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

emp.ie

252 ms

emp.ie

457 ms

www.emp.ie

683 ms

logo.svg

49 ms

SAM-2040_MT1000_Late_Summer_Deals_neu.jpg

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Emp.ie, 3% (1 request) were made to Cdn.cquotient.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Ed.emp.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (683 ms) belongs to the original domain Emp.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 246.5 kB (32%)

Content Size

759.3 kB

After Optimization

512.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Emp.ie main page is 759.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 290.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 246.1 kB

  • Original 290.6 kB
  • After minification 290.2 kB
  • After compression 44.5 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 246.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 270.4 kB
  • After minification 270.4 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. EMP images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 445 B

  • Original 161.2 kB
  • After minification 161.2 kB
  • After compression 160.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 37.1 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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. Emp.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (44%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EMP. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

emp.ie

emp.ie

252 ms

emp.ie

emp.ie

457 ms

www.emp.ie

www.emp.ie

683 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

49 ms

SAM-2040_MT1000_Late_Summer_Deals_neu.jpg

SAM-2040_MT1000_Late_Summer_Deals_neu.jpg

38 ms

SAM-1906_MT1000_72h_Shirt_Deadpool-Comic_INT.jpg

SAM-1906_MT1000_72h_Shirt_Deadpool-Comic_INT.jpg

26 ms

SAM-1768_MT1000_Festival_Afterburner.jpg

SAM-1768_MT1000_Festival_Afterburner.jpg

28 ms

SAM-1807_MT1000_Back_to_School_CW32.jpg

SAM-1807_MT1000_Back_to_School_CW32.jpg

29 ms

harry_potter.png

harry_potter.png

49 ms

85172_MT_Header_WW84.jpg

85172_MT_Header_WW84.jpg

27 ms

89126_MT_Header_Superman_Day.jpg

89126_MT_Header_Superman_Day.jpg

24 ms

webtrekk_teaserTrackingV2_default.js

webtrekk_teaserTrackingV2_default.js

19 ms

webtrekk_productListTracking.min.js

webtrekk_productListTracking.min.js

15 ms

webtrekk_v4.min.js

webtrekk_v4.min.js

21 ms

Resources-LoadAppResources

Resources-LoadAppResources

339 ms

vendor-app+homepage+search+productdetail~1fd751d0.js

vendor-app+homepage+search+productdetail~1fd751d0.js

38 ms

vendor-app+homepage+search+productdetail~5b885921.js

vendor-app+homepage+search+productdetail~5b885921.js

47 ms

app+homepage+search+productdetail~12ba1f73.js

app+homepage+search+productdetail~12ba1f73.js

40 ms

app+homepage+search+productdetail~333adc95.js

app+homepage+search+productdetail~333adc95.js

46 ms

app+homepage+search+productdetail~d243c3e1.js

app+homepage+search+productdetail~d243c3e1.js

48 ms

homepage~493df0b3.js

homepage~493df0b3.js

66 ms

dwanalytics-22.2.js

dwanalytics-22.2.js

58 ms

dwac-21.7.js

dwac-21.7.js

64 ms

gretel.min.js

gretel.min.js

25 ms

emp-icon-font-webfont.woff

emp-icon-font-webfont.woff

19 ms

wt

wt

516 ms

Home-GetHeaderElement

Home-GetHeaderElement

367 ms

Cart-DyHeaderInformation

Cart-DyHeaderInformation

365 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

31 ms

opensans-variablefont_wdthwght-webfont.woff

opensans-variablefont_wdthwght-webfont.woff

18 ms

robotoslab-variablefont_wght-webfont.woff

robotoslab-variablefont_wght-webfont.woff

67 ms

veneerclean-reg.woff

veneerclean-reg.woff

111 ms

hand.cur

hand.cur

102 ms

sprite_flags_2023.png

sprite_flags_2023.png

48 ms

Accessibility Review

emp.ie accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

emp.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

emp.ie SEO score

85

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

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 Emp.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 Emp.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

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