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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

galwaywater.ie

Galway Water, Water Softeners, Reverse Osmosis, Ultraviolet :: Galway Water

Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

4 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

499 ms

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About Website

Welcome to galwaywater.ie homepage info - get ready to check Galway Water best content right away, or after learning these important things about galwaywater.ie

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Key Findings

We analyzed Galwaywater.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 4 sec and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

galwaywater.ie performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

galwaywater.ie

4039 ms

preload.css

119 ms

bootstrap.css

563 ms

font-awesome.min.css

332 ms

animate.min.css

460 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Galwaywater.ie, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Galwaywater.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 632.5 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

564.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Galwaywater.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 465.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 36.8 kB

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 43.8 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 36.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 409.4 kB
  • After minification 399.5 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. Galway Water images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 177.7 kB

  • Original 274.2 kB
  • After minification 260.4 kB
  • After compression 96.5 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 177.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 408.3 kB

  • Original 465.2 kB
  • After minification 386.0 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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. Galwaywater.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 408.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (46%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Galway Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

galwaywater.ie

galwaywater.ie

4039 ms

preload.css

preload.css

119 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

563 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

332 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

460 ms

slidebars.css

slidebars.css

235 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

246 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

245 ms

shCore.css

shCore.css

406 ms

galwaywater.css

galwaywater.css

750 ms

width-full.css

width-full.css

410 ms

buttons.css

buttons.css

556 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

530 ms

stylesheet_combined_b65cae1d6e250ab6106b3ac74086332d.css

stylesheet_combined_b65cae1d6e250ab6106b3ac74086332d.css

534 ms

icon-f.png

icon-f.png

578 ms

icon-t.png

icon-t.png

660 ms

icon-i.png

icon-i.png

680 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1000 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

707 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

722 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

778 ms

slidebars.js

slidebars.js

998 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

999 ms

holder.js

holder.js

1000 ms

jquery.mixitup.min.js

jquery.mixitup.min.js

999 ms

shCore.js

shCore.js

1000 ms

app.js

app.js

1010 ms

index.js

index.js

1011 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

1013 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

slide-1-water-softeners.png

slide-1-water-softeners.png

1155 ms

slide-2-reverse-osmosis.png

slide-2-reverse-osmosis.png

1156 ms

slide-3-uv.png

slide-3-uv.png

1177 ms

slide-4-well-water.png

slide-4-well-water.png

1178 ms

Brochure_GalwayWater.jpg

Brochure_GalwayWater.jpg

1151 ms

Brochure_RO_GalwayWater.jpg

Brochure_RO_GalwayWater.jpg

1152 ms

icon-member-water-quality-sm.gif

icon-member-water-quality-sm.gif

1180 ms

wqa-master.gif

wqa-master.gif

1212 ms

icon-certified-water-sm.gif

icon-certified-water-sm.gif

1138 ms

icon-certified-installer-sm.gif

icon-certified-installer-sm.gif

1090 ms

icon-certified-sales-water-sm.gif

icon-certified-sales-water-sm.gif

1094 ms

icon-test-validated.gif

icon-test-validated.gif

1109 ms

icon-nsf-sm.gif

icon-nsf-sm.gif

1031 ms

icon-clack-oem-sm.gif

icon-clack-oem-sm.gif

1003 ms

icon-price-promise-sm.gif

icon-price-promise-sm.gif

1010 ms

galway-water-footer-logo.png

galway-water-footer-logo.png

979 ms

css

css

35 ms

css

css

39 ms

drop.png

drop.png

468 ms

bx_loader.gif

bx_loader.gif

627 ms

galway-water-logo.jpg

galway-water-logo.jpg

663 ms

galway-water-logo-horiz.png

galway-water-logo-horiz.png

738 ms

slide_back.jpg

slide_back.jpg

758 ms

close.png

close.png

759 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

756 ms

prev.png

prev.png

758 ms

next.png

next.png

781 ms

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MwQ5bhbm2POE2V9BOw.woff

136 ms

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135 ms

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TK3_WkUHHAIjg75cFRf3bXL8LICs169vsUZiYw.woff

136 ms

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TK3_WkUHHAIjg75cFRf3bXL8LICs1xZosUZiYw.woff

135 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

782 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

688 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

54 ms

Accessibility Review

galwaywater.ie accessibility score

81

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

galwaywater.ie best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

galwaywater.ie SEO score

83

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

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 Galwaywater.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 Galwaywater.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

galwaywater.ie

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