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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

extra.ie

Home - Top Irish news, sport, entertainment & business

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

8 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

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About Website

Visit extra.ie now to see the best up-to-date Extra content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about extra.ie

Get the inside track on all of Ireland's top Extra news stories. Get all the latest Irish News and News from around The World. Read Extra.ie NOW.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Extra.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 8 ms and then it took 4.3 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

extra.ie performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

extra.ie

8 ms

extra.ie

22 ms

css

53 ms

automatic.css

8 ms

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Extra.ie, 8% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (669 ms) belongs to the original domain Extra.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

7.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Extra.ie main page is 7.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 289.4 kB

  • Original 342.0 kB
  • After minification 333.3 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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 289.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 6.3 MB
  • After minification 6.3 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. Extra images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 990.9 kB
  • After minification 990.9 kB
  • After compression 966.6 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 166 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Extra.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (20%)

Requests Now

145

After Optimization

116

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 145 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Extra. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

extra.ie accessibility score

87

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

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

extra.ie best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

extra.ie SEO score

97

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 Extra.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 Extra.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

extra.ie

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