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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

firepodcast.ie

The Irish FIRE Podcast - Financial Independence Ireland

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

295 ms

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About Website

Visit firepodcast.ie now to see the best up-to-date FIRE Podcast content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about firepodcast.ie

The Irish FIRE Podcast is hosted by Michael who shares his financial independence journey from Ireland.

Visit firepodcast.ie

Key Findings

We analyzed Firepodcast.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firepodcast.ie performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

21/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

firepodcast.ie

220 ms

www.firepodcast.ie

238 ms

app.js

609 ms

css

35 ms

font-awesome.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Firepodcast.ie, 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Firepodcast.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firepodcast.ie main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 9.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 64.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 949.3 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. FIRE Podcast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 62 B

  • Original 354.9 kB
  • After minification 354.9 kB
  • After compression 354.8 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. Firepodcast.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (27%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FIRE Podcast. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

firepodcast.ie

firepodcast.ie

220 ms

www.firepodcast.ie

www.firepodcast.ie

238 ms

app.js

app.js

609 ms

css

css

35 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

33 ms

app.css

app.css

316 ms

js

js

65 ms

css

css

13 ms

js

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48 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

66 ms

ifp.png

ifp.png

492 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

727 ms

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230 ms

apple-podcasts.png

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344 ms

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337 ms

spotify.png

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521 ms

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742 ms

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irish-independent.png

2002 ms

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fi-europe.png

1747 ms

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the-sunday-tImes.jpg

2847 ms

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rob-of-the-green.png

3042 ms

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2848 ms

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2846 ms

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59 ms

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3915 ms

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26 ms

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16 ms

Accessibility Review

firepodcast.ie accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

firepodcast.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

firepodcast.ie SEO score

92

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

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 Firepodcast.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 Firepodcast.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

firepodcast.ie

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