Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

fm104.ie

Dublin's Hit Music Station | FM104

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

368 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

366 ms

fm104.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing FM104 content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about fm104.ie

Home of The Strawberry Alarm Clock and 104 Drive. Listen live or stream podcasts. All your music, laughs, news, sport, showbiz & lifestyle in one place!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fm104.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 368 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fm104.ie performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Home

368 ms

GetResource.ashx

184 ms

GetResource.ashx

452 ms

css

35 ms

font-awesome.min.css

302 ms

Our browser made a total of 135 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Fm104.ie, 12% (16 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 9% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Fm104.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (46%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Fm104.ie main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 69.9 kB

  • Original 95.2 kB
  • After minification 88.8 kB
  • After compression 25.3 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. 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 69.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. FM104 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 907.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 395.1 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 907.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 203.4 kB

  • Original 246.5 kB
  • After minification 228.2 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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. Fm104.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 203.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (48%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FM104. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

fm104.ie accessibility score

80

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

fm104.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fm104.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 Fm104.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 Fm104.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of FM104. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: