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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

gis.epa.ie

Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland (EPA) Geoportal

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

384 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

153 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gis.epa.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 384 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gis.epa.ie performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gis.epa.ie

384 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

36 ms

otSDKStub.js

50 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css

91 ms

assets.css

348 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Gis.epa.ie, 11% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 4% (1 request) were made to Geolocation.onetrust.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (528 ms) belongs to the original domain Gis.epa.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

544.9 kB

After Optimization

482.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gis.epa.ie main page is 544.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 384.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 15.1 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.0 kB, which is 21% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 384.8 kB
  • After minification 347.4 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. Gis EPA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 8.5 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 113.6 kB
  • After compression 105.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 27.4 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Gis.epa.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (64%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gis EPA. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gis.epa.ie

gis.epa.ie

384 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

OtAutoBlock.js

36 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

50 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css

91 ms

assets.css

assets.css

348 ms

framework.css

framework.css

361 ms

landing.css

landing.css

349 ms

bootstrap.min3.css

bootstrap.min3.css

428 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

434 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

265 ms

jquery.ui.slider.min.js

jquery.ui.slider.min.js

357 ms

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

454 ms

jquery.blockUI.js

jquery.blockUI.js

454 ms

jquery.cycle.lite.js

jquery.cycle.lite.js

455 ms

jquery.quick.pagination.min.js

jquery.quick.pagination.min.js

457 ms

global.min.js

global.min.js

522 ms

html5shiv.min.js

html5shiv.min.js

521 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

528 ms

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8ec87693-c4c1-4c03-86a0-c6f50b4798a4-test.json

131 ms

location

location

45 ms

logo_geo_portal.png

logo_geo_portal.png

94 ms

landing_bg.jpg

landing_bg.jpg

324 ms

landing_sprite.png

landing_sprite.png

249 ms

more.png

more.png

95 ms

playpause.png

playpause.png

90 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

97 ms

frutiger-light.woff

frutiger-light.woff

181 ms

frutiger-roman.woff

frutiger-roman.woff

187 ms

Accessibility Review

gis.epa.ie accessibility score

91

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

gis.epa.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

SEO Factors

gis.epa.ie SEO score

89

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

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 Gis.epa.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 Gis.epa.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gis EPA. 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: