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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% 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

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

hickeyfabrics.ie

Shop Dressmaking, Craft, Haberdashery & Wool Supplies

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

361 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

231 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hickeyfabrics.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 361 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hickeyfabrics.ie performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hickeyfabrics.ie

361 ms

www.hickeyfabrics.ie

387 ms

hickeys.html

541 ms

d94209e82264aa658f5ccc23ab405477_1501526466.css

525 ms

b4be4c5e6030202dd43c7b77e634083c_1496314593.js

719 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Hickeyfabrics.ie, 65% (42 requests) were made to Homefocus.ie and 9% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Homefocus.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (43%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hickeyfabrics.ie main page is 4.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 181.9 kB

  • Original 196.9 kB
  • After minification 103.7 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 93.2 kB, which is 47% 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 181.9 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 132.8 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Hickeyfabrics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 864.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 972.7 kB
  • After compression 297.1 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 864.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 674.0 kB

  • Original 790.8 kB
  • After minification 781.8 kB
  • After compression 116.8 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. Hickeyfabrics.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 674.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (13%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hickeyfabrics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hickeyfabrics.ie

hickeyfabrics.ie

361 ms

www.hickeyfabrics.ie

www.hickeyfabrics.ie

387 ms

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541 ms

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525 ms

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b4be4c5e6030202dd43c7b77e634083c_1496314593.js

719 ms

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a12de053747f093a280ecc08c66018f9_1488969177.js

274 ms

css

css

41 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

36 ms

analytics.js

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223 ms

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90 ms

logo.png

logo.png

129 ms

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128 ms

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129 ms

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245 ms

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308 ms

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384 ms

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244 ms

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511 ms

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517 ms

Wool.jpg

Wool.jpg

358 ms

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358 ms

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818 ms

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836 ms

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869 ms

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1069 ms

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959 ms

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970 ms

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992 ms

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237 ms

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105 ms

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924 ms

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67 ms

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14 ms

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Accessibility Review

hickeyfabrics.ie accessibility score

89

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

hickeyfabrics.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

hickeyfabrics.ie SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Hickeyfabrics.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 Hickeyfabrics.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

hickeyfabrics.ie

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