Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

herald.ie

Dublin News | Latest Local Dublin News Headlines Today - Irish Independent

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

265 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

536 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herald.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 265 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herald.ie performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value54,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value70.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.herald.ie

265 ms

screen.herald.min.css

85 ms

widgets.min.css

160 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

98 ms

head.min.js

98 ms

Our browser made a total of 214 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Herald.ie, 8% (17 requests) were made to Cdn-04.independent.ie and 6% (12 requests) were made to Cdn-02.independent.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) relates to the external source Us.ads.justpremium.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (41%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Herald.ie main page is 2.9 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 139.3 kB

  • Original 185.8 kB
  • After minification 184.2 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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 139.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

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

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 698.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 482.3 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 698.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 285.3 kB

  • Original 346.5 kB
  • After minification 343.6 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. Herald.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 285.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 98 (49%)

Requests Now

200

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 200 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

herald.ie accessibility score

89

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

Best Practices

herald.ie best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

herald.ie SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Herald.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 Herald.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 description is not detected on the main page of Herald. 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: