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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

headline.ie

Headline | Ireland | Supporting Media | Changing Attitudes

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

headline.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Headline content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about headline.ie

Headline is Ireland’s national media programme for responsible reporting, and representation of mental ill health and suicide.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Headline.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

headline.ie performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

headline.ie

276 ms

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1175 ms

font-awesome.min.css

38 ms

sogo-accessibility-public.css

92 ms

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184 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Headline.ie, 19% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Headline.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.0 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Headline.ie main page is 1.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 459.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 155.1 kB

  • Original 189.2 kB
  • After minification 183.7 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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 155.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 55.0 kB

  • Original 435.4 kB
  • After minification 380.4 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, Headline needs image optimization as it can save up to 55.0 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 459.9 kB
  • After minification 459.9 kB
  • After compression 420.9 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 219.0 kB
  • After minification 219.0 kB
  • After compression 171.1 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. Headline.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.9 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (80%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Headline. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

headline.ie accessibility score

79

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

headline.ie best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

headline.ie SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Headline.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 Headline.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

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