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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

gaelforceevents.com

Gaelforce Events | Ireland's Best Adventure Races

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

442 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

gaelforceevents.com screenshot

About Website

Visit gaelforceevents.com now to see the best up-to-date Gaelforce Events content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gaelforceevents.com

Our iconic award winning races bring competitors through the most interesting routes, stunning landscapes and varied terrain on both east and west coasts.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gaelforceevents.com page load time and found that the first response time was 442 ms and then it took 7.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gaelforceevents.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gaelforceevents.com

442 ms

gaelforceevents.com

981 ms

weg2fdj.css

91 ms

en

332 ms

en

767 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Gaelforceevents.com, 10% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Gaelforceevents.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (11%)

Content Size

11.2 MB

After Optimization

10.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gaelforceevents.com main page is 11.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 156.5 kB

  • Original 174.5 kB
  • After minification 104.1 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 70.4 kB, which is 40% 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 156.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 11.0 MB
  • After minification 10.0 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. Gaelforce Events images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5 B

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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (24%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

60

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gaelforce Events. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gaelforceevents.com

gaelforceevents.com

442 ms

gaelforceevents.com

gaelforceevents.com

981 ms

weg2fdj.css

weg2fdj.css

91 ms

en

en

332 ms

en

en

767 ms

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p.css

33 ms

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multipage.js

216 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

169 ms

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logo.svg

157 ms

logo_mobile.svg

logo_mobile.svg

154 ms

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arrow_dark.svg

159 ms

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253 ms

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250 ms

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418 ms

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422 ms

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419 ms

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icon_search_mobile.svg

418 ms

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422 ms

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locations.svg

423 ms

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463 ms

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461 ms

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465 ms

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466 ms

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468 ms

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572 ms

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568 ms

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570 ms

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573 ms

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573 ms

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575 ms

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680 ms

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677 ms

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682 ms

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lake_white_horizontal.svg

686 ms

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swim.svg

685 ms

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783 ms

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750.svg

786 ms

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787 ms

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791 ms

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778 ms

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31 ms

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736 ms

howth_color_horizontal.svg

howth_color_horizontal.svg

736 ms

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61 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

15 ms

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2364 ms

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1989 ms

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903 ms

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1878 ms

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2242 ms

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GF_Kippure_location_desktop-crop-600-600.png

947 ms

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3010 ms

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1150 ms

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1259 ms

logo_footer.svg

logo_footer.svg

1332 ms

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logo_lodge.svg

1468 ms

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logo_connemara_color.svg

1611 ms

killary.svg

killary.svg

1732 ms

B-Corp-Logo-Black-RGB-no-padding.svg

B-Corp-Logo-Black-RGB-no-padding.svg

1848 ms

events_icon.svg

events_icon.svg

1889 ms

about_us_icon.svg

about_us_icon.svg

1838 ms

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1886 ms

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play-btn.svg

1891 ms

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scroll.svg

1941 ms

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close-menu.svg

1988 ms

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GF_West_desktop_event-crop-600-750.png

2776 ms

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2516 ms

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2000 ms

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2421 ms

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2111 ms

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2381 ms

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2278 ms

forest.jpg

forest.jpg

2535 ms

events_triangles_desktop.svg

events_triangles_desktop.svg

2395 ms

reviews_bg.svg

reviews_bg.svg

2424 ms

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custom_article_bg_v1.svg

2504 ms

arrow-down.svg

arrow-down.svg

2512 ms

Accessibility Review

gaelforceevents.com accessibility score

78

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

gaelforceevents.com 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

gaelforceevents.com SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gaelforceevents.com 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 Gaelforceevents.com 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

gaelforceevents.com

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