Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

discountcode.independent.ie

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Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

147 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

270 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Discountcode.independent.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 147 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discountcode.independent.ie performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discountcode.independent.ie

147 ms

discountcode.independent.ie

468 ms

irishindependent-style.v0a4db82.css

139 ms

vendor.v9e55a20.js

270 ms

default.v0574e6b.js

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Discountcode.independent.ie, 69% (43 requests) were made to Wli-res-2.cloudinary.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (468 ms) belongs to the original domain Discountcode.independent.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

462.7 kB

After Optimization

365.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Discountcode.independent.ie main page is 462.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 242.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 95.8 kB

  • Original 124.4 kB
  • After minification 105.7 kB
  • After compression 28.6 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 18.7 kB, which is 15% 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 95.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 242.9 kB
  • After minification 241.8 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. Discount Code Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 147 B

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 61.0 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 93 B

  • Original 34.4 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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. Discountcode.independent.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (40%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discount Code Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

discountcode.independent.ie accessibility score

68

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

discountcode.independent.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

discountcode.independent.ie SEO score

84

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Discountcode.independent.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 Discountcode.independent.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 Discount Code Independent. 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: