Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

finfacts.ie

IRELAND BUSINESS: FINFACTS IRISH FINANCE & BUSINESS PORTAL - mortgage Ireland, protection, life insurance, Financial Services, Investment, loans, Iris...

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

276 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Finfacts.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

finfacts.ie performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

finfacts.ie

253 ms

finfacts.ie

601 ms

adsbygoogle.js

116 ms

text.css

90 ms

button.css

177 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Finfacts.ie, 13% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (883 ms) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 305.7 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

888.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Finfacts.ie main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 904.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 98.0 kB

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 82.1 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 36.2 kB, which is 31% 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 98.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 52.8 kB
  • After minification 52.8 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. FINFACTS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 207.1 kB

  • Original 904.3 kB
  • After minification 904.1 kB
  • After compression 697.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 207.1 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 450 B

  • Original 119.1 kB
  • After minification 119.1 kB
  • After compression 118.7 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. Finfacts.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (59%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FINFACTS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

finfacts.ie accessibility score

62

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

finfacts.ie best practices score

50

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

finfacts.ie SEO score

46

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-4

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Finfacts.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 Finfacts.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-4. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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