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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

houseofcolour.ie

House of Colour, Top Hair Salons in Dublin City Centre

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

191 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houseofcolour.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houseofcolour.ie performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

74/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,520 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.338

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houseofcolour.ie

295 ms

www.houseofcolour.ie

455 ms

styles.css

165 ms

dw_scrollObj.js

165 ms

dw_hoverscroll.js

168 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Houseofcolour.ie, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Houseofcolour.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

903.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houseofcolour.ie main page is 1.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 912.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 12.2 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 9.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 53.5 kB

  • Original 912.7 kB
  • After minification 859.2 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. House Of Colour images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 61.7 kB

  • Original 100.1 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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 61.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Houseofcolour.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (20%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

35

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House Of Colour. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

houseofcolour.ie

houseofcolour.ie

295 ms

www.houseofcolour.ie

www.houseofcolour.ie

455 ms

styles.css

styles.css

165 ms

dw_scrollObj.js

dw_scrollObj.js

165 ms

dw_hoverscroll.js

dw_hoverscroll.js

168 ms

dw_event.js

dw_event.js

178 ms

dw_slidebar.js

dw_slidebar.js

181 ms

dw_scroll_aux.js

dw_scroll_aux.js

180 ms

dw_startup.js

dw_startup.js

343 ms

superfish-vertical.css

superfish-vertical.css

342 ms

jquery-1.2.3.min.js

jquery-1.2.3.min.js

520 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

355 ms

bgIframe.js

bgIframe.js

353 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

359 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

jquery.innerfade.js

508 ms

ga.js

ga.js

53 ms

logo_house_of_colour.gif

logo_house_of_colour.gif

163 ms

BOOK%20ONLINE.gif

BOOK%20ONLINE.gif

90 ms

Collection%202010%20023.jpg

Collection%202010%20023.jpg

329 ms

0new%20salon.jpg

0new%20salon.jpg

248 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

263 ms

11.jpg

11.jpg

271 ms

12.jpg

12.jpg

360 ms

13.jpg

13.jpg

405 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

577 ms

Gen%20Now%202012.jpg

Gen%20Now%202012.jpg

676 ms

education%20ad%202012_sml.jpg

education%20ad%202012_sml.jpg

714 ms

House-of-Colour_Brian-Wella-Trend-Vision-UK-&-Ireland-Silver_Wella-Generation-Now-Winner.jpg

House-of-Colour_Brian-Wella-Trend-Vision-UK-&-Ireland-Silver_Wella-Generation-Now-Winner.jpg

719 ms

House-of-Colour_Shauna-Winner-Trend-Vision-UK-&-Ireland-Winner.jpg

House-of-Colour_Shauna-Winner-Trend-Vision-UK-&-Ireland-Winner.jpg

802 ms

colour%20trophy%20model%202010.jpg

colour%20trophy%20model%202010.jpg

757 ms

master%20colour%20programme.jpg

master%20colour%20programme.jpg

905 ms

olive%203rd%20colour%20trophy.jpg

olive%203rd%20colour%20trophy.jpg

1002 ms

susan%20+kate%202012.jpg

susan%20+kate%202012.jpg

1044 ms

bebo_logo.jpg

bebo_logo.jpg

885 ms

youtube_logo.jpg

youtube_logo.jpg

940 ms

find_us_on_facebook.png

find_us_on_facebook.png

977 ms

twitter_logo.jpg

twitter_logo.jpg

1065 ms

coverthumb.png

coverthumb.png

1153 ms

col3.jpg

col3.jpg

1119 ms

title_arrow.gif

title_arrow.gif

1138 ms

btn-up.gif

btn-up.gif

1171 ms

btn-dn.gif

btn-dn.gif

1198 ms

QR_code_app.jpg

QR_code_app.jpg

1223 ms

col4.jpg

col4.jpg

1277 ms

btn_collections_09.jpg

btn_collections_09.jpg

1315 ms

btn_collections.jpg

btn_collections.jpg

1313 ms

logo_bottom.jpg

logo_bottom.jpg

1332 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

houseofcolour.ie accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

houseofcolour.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

SEO Factors

houseofcolour.ie SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houseofcolour.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Houseofcolour.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

houseofcolour.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of House Of Colour. 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: