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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

fireballmedia.ie

Web Design Cork | Website Development Cork | Web Hosting | Domain Registration, Ireland | Fireball Media Group

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

10.2 sec

Page Rendered

314 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fireballmedia.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 221 ms and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fireballmedia.ie performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fireballmedia.ie

221 ms

www.fireballmedia.ie

424 ms

grid.css

133 ms

base.css

202 ms

layout.css

211 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Fireballmedia.ie, 16% (14 requests) were made to Media.fireballmedia.ie and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7 sec) relates to the external source App.whoisvisiting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 299.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

880.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Fireballmedia.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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 107.3 kB

  • Original 128.5 kB
  • After minification 126.4 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 107.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 191.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 837.8 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. Obviously, Fireball Media needs image optimization as it can save up to 191.8 kB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 380 B

  • Original 22.1 kB
  • After minification 22.1 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 67 (80%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fireball Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 63 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fireballmedia.ie

fireballmedia.ie

221 ms

www.fireballmedia.ie

www.fireballmedia.ie

424 ms

grid.css

grid.css

133 ms

base.css

base.css

202 ms

layout.css

layout.css

211 ms

audio-player.css

audio-player.css

204 ms

blog.css

blog.css

206 ms

postslider.css

postslider.css

218 ms

buttons.css

buttons.css

207 ms

buttonrow.css

buttonrow.css

268 ms

buttons_fullwidth.css

buttons_fullwidth.css

271 ms

catalogue.css

catalogue.css

273 ms

comments.css

comments.css

273 ms

contact.css

contact.css

274 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

275 ms

contentslider.css

contentslider.css

335 ms

countdown.css

countdown.css

338 ms

gallery.css

gallery.css

340 ms

gallery_horizontal.css

gallery_horizontal.css

340 ms

google_maps.css

google_maps.css

341 ms

grid_row.css

grid_row.css

342 ms

heading.css

heading.css

402 ms

headline_rotator.css

headline_rotator.css

405 ms

hr.css

hr.css

406 ms

icon.css

icon.css

407 ms

iconbox.css

iconbox.css

408 ms

icongrid.css

icongrid.css

409 ms

iconlist.css

iconlist.css

469 ms

image.css

image.css

471 ms

image_hotspots.css

image_hotspots.css

474 ms

magazine.css

magazine.css

476 ms

masonry_entries.css

masonry_entries.css

475 ms

avia-snippet-site-preloader.css

avia-snippet-site-preloader.css

477 ms

menu.css

menu.css

536 ms

notification.css

notification.css

540 ms

numbers.css

numbers.css

541 ms

portfolio.css

portfolio.css

542 ms

post_metadata.css

post_metadata.css

484 ms

progressbar.css

progressbar.css

416 ms

promobox.css

promobox.css

407 ms

search.css

search.css

409 ms

slideshow_accordion.css

slideshow_accordion.css

407 ms

slideshow_feature_image.css

slideshow_feature_image.css

408 ms

slideshow_fullsize.css

slideshow_fullsize.css

399 ms

slideshow_fullscreen.css

slideshow_fullscreen.css

401 ms

slideshow_layerslider.css

slideshow_layerslider.css

411 ms

social_share.css

social_share.css

409 ms

tab_section.css

tab_section.css

410 ms

table.css

table.css

410 ms

tabs.css

tabs.css

411 ms

team.css

team.css

411 ms

testimonials.css

testimonials.css

408 ms

timeline.css

timeline.css

409 ms

toggles.css

toggles.css

411 ms

video.css

video.css

409 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

409 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

480 ms

cleantalk-public.min.css

cleantalk-public.min.css

409 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

410 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

410 ms

avia-snippet-lightbox.css

avia-snippet-lightbox.css

410 ms

avia-snippet-widget.css

avia-snippet-widget.css

412 ms

enfold.css

enfold.css

471 ms

custom.css

custom.css

420 ms

post-734.css

post-734.css

418 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

482 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

419 ms

8938bd862df5b846326eaa2f0543c7bd.js

8938bd862df5b846326eaa2f0543c7bd.js

637 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

454 ms

slide2_Layer_5.png

slide2_Layer_5.png

1279 ms

slide2_sbrowser_bg-copy.png

slide2_sbrowser_bg-copy.png

189 ms

space.jpg

space.jpg

193 ms

Facebooklogo.png

Facebooklogo.png

653 ms

twitterlogo.png

twitterlogo.png

669 ms

google.png

google.png

668 ms

entypo-fontello.woff

entypo-fontello.woff

208 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

who.js

who.js

6982 ms

spiders1-495x400.jpg

spiders1-495x400.jpg

43 ms

fireball1-495x400.jpg

fireball1-495x400.jpg

51 ms

ucd1-495x400.jpg

ucd1-495x400.jpg

51 ms

gasoline1-495x400.jpg

gasoline1-495x400.jpg

56 ms

aimawards1-495x400.jpg

aimawards1-495x400.jpg

61 ms

ppimusic1-495x400.jpg

ppimusic1-495x400.jpg

61 ms

napiarsaighs1-495x400.jpg

napiarsaighs1-495x400.jpg

65 ms

ppiradio1-495x400.jpg

ppiradio1-495x400.jpg

67 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

js

js

64 ms

Accessibility Review

fireballmedia.ie accessibility score

84

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

fireballmedia.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

fireballmedia.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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Fireballmedia.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 Fireballmedia.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

fireballmedia.ie

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