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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

housedesign.ie

RIAI.ie (The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland)

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

707 ms

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About Website

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

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) is the Regulatory and Support body for Architects in Ireland. Support services are also provided for Architectural Technologists.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housedesign.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 352 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housedesign.ie performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value116.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value45.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value120.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housedesign.ie

352 ms

www.riai.ie

293 ms

www.riai.ie

841 ms

uc.js

20 ms

main.css

315 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Housedesign.ie, 94% (95 requests) were made to Riai.ie and 1% (1 request) were made to Consent.cookiebot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Riai.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.8 MB (13%)

Content Size

44.5 MB

After Optimization

38.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Housedesign.ie main page is 44.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 43.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 293.0 kB

  • Original 322.3 kB
  • After minification 269.5 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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 52.8 kB, which is 16% 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 293.0 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 5.4 MB

  • Original 43.8 MB
  • After minification 38.4 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. Obviously, Housedesign needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.4 MB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 88.8 kB

  • Original 330.5 kB
  • After minification 330.5 kB
  • After compression 241.6 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 88.8 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (9%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

84

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housedesign. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

housedesign.ie

housedesign.ie

352 ms

www.riai.ie

www.riai.ie

293 ms

www.riai.ie

www.riai.ie

841 ms

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uc.js

20 ms

main.css

main.css

315 ms

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13 ms

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198 ms

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554 ms

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1442 ms

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1439 ms

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1440 ms

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1446 ms

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1442 ms

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1449 ms

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1445 ms

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1448 ms

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1447 ms

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1450 ms

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1451 ms

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1453 ms

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1456 ms

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1452 ms

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1454 ms

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1455 ms

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1460 ms

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1696 ms

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1344 ms

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1334 ms

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23 ms

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1180 ms

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1241 ms

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303 ms

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338 ms

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337 ms

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324 ms

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324 ms

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323 ms

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366 ms

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365 ms

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362 ms

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363 ms

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426 ms

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359 ms

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DHLGH_RIAI_HousingConference2024_card.jpg

420 ms

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420 ms

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419 ms

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913 ms

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419 ms

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464 ms

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422 ms

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917 ms

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421 ms

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422 ms

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478 ms

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476 ms

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496 ms

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553 ms

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575 ms

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572 ms

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594 ms

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649 ms

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679 ms

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671 ms

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702 ms

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658 ms

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658 ms

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544 ms

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526 ms

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564 ms

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598 ms

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605 ms

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625 ms

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625 ms

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755 ms

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666 ms

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660 ms

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664 ms

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615 ms

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651 ms

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695 ms

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702 ms

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704 ms

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710 ms

Accessibility Review

housedesign.ie accessibility score

83

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

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

SEO Factors

housedesign.ie SEO score

84

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 Housedesign.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 Housedesign.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

housedesign.ie

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