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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

hyc.ie

Homepage - HYC.ie

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

411 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

388 ms

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About Website

Visit hyc.ie now to see the best up-to-date HYC content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hyc.ie

Homepage - Howth Yacht Club - Ireland's premier yachting and sailing club - promoting sailing, a sport for life.

Visit hyc.ie

Key Findings

We analyzed Hyc.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 411 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hyc.ie performance score

41

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.237

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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411 ms

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Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Hyc.ie, 28% (28 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (6 requests) were made to Windguru.cz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hyc.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hyc.ie main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 34.7 kB
  • After minification 34.6 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. 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 25.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 122.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. HYC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 239.0 kB
  • After minification 239.0 kB
  • After compression 173.2 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 65.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 18.3 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. Hyc.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (46%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HYC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

hyc.ie accessibility score

75

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hyc.ie best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hyc.ie SEO score

69

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

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 Hyc.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 Hyc.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 description is not detected on the main page of HYC. 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: