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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

iarco.info

Home | Association of Retired Commissioned Officers

Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

295 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

880 ms

iarco.info screenshot

About Website

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

Association of Retired Commissioned Officers (ARCO) was founded in 1993 and our purpose is to represent retired officers of the Permanent Defence Force.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iarco.info page load time and found that the first response time was 295 ms and then it took 9.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iarco.info performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iarco.info

295 ms

arcoireland.com

3859 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

263 ms

style.min.css

266 ms

child-theme-generator-public.css

293 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Iarco.info, 83% (48 requests) were made to Arcoireland.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) relates to the external source Arcoireland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 972.7 kB (15%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iarco.info main page is 6.4 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 6.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 107.9 kB

  • Original 129.2 kB
  • After minification 116.1 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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. 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 107.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 862.2 kB

  • Original 6.1 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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, Iarco needs image optimization as it can save up to 862.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 58.6 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 57.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 45.4 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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. Iarco.info has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (45%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iarco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

iarco.info

iarco.info

295 ms

arcoireland.com

arcoireland.com

3859 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

263 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

266 ms

child-theme-generator-public.css

child-theme-generator-public.css

293 ms

dnd-upload-cf7.css

dnd-upload-cf7.css

432 ms

styles.css

styles.css

437 ms

fl-icons.css

fl-icons.css

465 ms

flatsome.css

flatsome.css

694 ms

style.css

style.css

607 ms

css

css

31 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

728 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

778 ms

child-theme-generator-public.js

child-theme-generator-public.js

844 ms

api.js

api.js

52 ms

style.css

style.css

1059 ms

index.js

index.js

1059 ms

index.js

index.js

1137 ms

codedropz-uploader-min.js

codedropz-uploader-min.js

1148 ms

dnd-upload-cf7.js

dnd-upload-cf7.js

1224 ms

flatsome-live-search.js

flatsome-live-search.js

1235 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

1323 ms

flatsome.js

flatsome.js

1540 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1396 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

OneSignalSDK.js

146 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

1411 ms

logo.fw_.png

logo.fw_.png

1418 ms

death-notice.jpg

death-notice.jpg

1173 ms

pension-300x150.jpg

pension-300x150.jpg

1173 ms

Banner-Press-Releases-1150x420-1-300x150.jpg

Banner-Press-Releases-1150x420-1-300x150.jpg

1172 ms

Defence-Opportunities-300x150.png

Defence-Opportunities-300x150.png

1435 ms

ANNUALGENERALMEETING-300x167.png

ANNUALGENERALMEETING-300x167.png

1427 ms

Briefing-300x150.png

Briefing-300x150.png

1540 ms

passports-300x155.jpg

passports-300x155.jpg

1429 ms

Untitled-300x150.png

Untitled-300x150.png

1599 ms

Bank-Account-300x150.png

Bank-Account-300x150.png

1601 ms

JP-Morgan-300x150.jpg

JP-Morgan-300x150.jpg

1697 ms

Wreaths-300x150.jpg

Wreaths-300x150.jpg

1775 ms

Veterans-300x158.jpg

Veterans-300x158.jpg

1691 ms

death-notice-150x150.jpg

death-notice-150x150.jpg

1796 ms

pension-150x150.jpg

pension-150x150.jpg

1855 ms

Banner-Press-Releases-1150x420-1-150x150.jpg

Banner-Press-Releases-1150x420-1-150x150.jpg

1859 ms

Defence-Opportunities-150x150.png

Defence-Opportunities-150x150.png

2032 ms

ANNUALGENERALMEETING-150x150.png

ANNUALGENERALMEETING-150x150.png

2075 ms

fl-icons.ttf

fl-icons.ttf

1959 ms

recaptcha__en_gb.js

recaptcha__en_gb.js

41 ms

fallback

fallback

40 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

4 ms

css

css

14 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

4 ms

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1313 ms

LE-Samuel-Beckett.jpg

LE-Samuel-Beckett.jpg

1293 ms

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42863096070_19b4dae8b5_k.jpg

1460 ms

Overseas-Unit-1.jpg

Overseas-Unit-1.jpg

1559 ms

Inauguration.jpg

Inauguration.jpg

1557 ms

Gabions.jpg

Gabions.jpg

1471 ms

McKee.jpg

McKee.jpg

2052 ms

Heli-and-Diver.jpg

Heli-and-Diver.jpg

1992 ms

Accessibility Review

iarco.info accessibility score

73

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

iarco.info best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

iarco.info 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iarco.info 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 Iarco.info 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

iarco.info

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