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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

iarco.info

Home | Association of Retired Commissioned Officers

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

285 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

810 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 285 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iarco.info performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,420 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iarco.info

285 ms

arcoireland.com

1298 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

89 ms

classic-themes.min.css

175 ms

child-theme-generator-public.css

257 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Iarco.info, 78% (39 requests) were made to Arcoireland.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Arcoireland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.0 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

906.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Iarco.info main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 811.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 114.1 kB

  • Original 137.3 kB
  • After minification 127.8 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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 114.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 275.9 kB

  • Original 811.2 kB
  • After minification 535.2 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. Obviously, Iarco needs image optimization as it can save up to 275.9 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 316.2 kB
  • After minification 315.8 kB
  • After compression 314.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 35.1 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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 (58%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

iarco.info

iarco.info

285 ms

arcoireland.com

arcoireland.com

1298 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

89 ms

classic-themes.min.css

classic-themes.min.css

175 ms

child-theme-generator-public.css

child-theme-generator-public.css

257 ms

dnd-upload-cf7.css

dnd-upload-cf7.css

259 ms

styles.css

styles.css

257 ms

flatsome.css

flatsome.css

351 ms

style.css

style.css

258 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

267 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

342 ms

child-theme-generator-public.js

child-theme-generator-public.js

343 ms

api.js

api.js

37 ms

style.css

style.css

343 ms

index.js

index.js

344 ms

index.js

index.js

642 ms

codedropz-uploader-min.js

codedropz-uploader-min.js

643 ms

flatsome-live-search.js

flatsome-live-search.js

642 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

643 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

644 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

645 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

645 ms

flatsome.js

flatsome.js

647 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

645 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

OneSignalSDK.js

35 ms

packery.pkgd.min.js

packery.pkgd.min.js

646 ms

logo.fw_.png

logo.fw_.png

611 ms

death-notice.jpg

death-notice.jpg

130 ms

TOIDF-Logo-300x163.jpg

TOIDF-Logo-300x163.jpg

130 ms

Public-Service-Agreement-2024-2026-Image-300x150.png

Public-Service-Agreement-2024-2026-Image-300x150.png

131 ms

ARCO-LOGO-300x156.png

ARCO-LOGO-300x156.png

128 ms

Badge_of_the_Irish_Defence_Forces.svg-1.png

Badge_of_the_Irish_Defence_Forces.svg-1.png

531 ms

pension-300x150.jpg

pension-300x150.jpg

214 ms

DOD-Logo-2-300x152.png

DOD-Logo-2-300x152.png

214 ms

Christmas-Card-2023-300x150.jpg

Christmas-Card-2023-300x150.jpg

214 ms

Untitled-300x150.png

Untitled-300x150.png

214 ms

death-notice-150x150.jpg

death-notice-150x150.jpg

212 ms

TOIDF-Logo-150x150.jpg

TOIDF-Logo-150x150.jpg

288 ms

Public-Service-Agreement-2024-2026-Image-150x150.png

Public-Service-Agreement-2024-2026-Image-150x150.png

286 ms

ARCO-LOGO-150x150.png

ARCO-LOGO-150x150.png

369 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHw3q5d0.woff

157 ms

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S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwaPHw3q5d0N7w.woff

156 ms

fl-icons.ttf

fl-icons.ttf

239 ms

recaptcha__en_gb.js

recaptcha__en_gb.js

66 ms

fallback

fallback

30 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

4 ms

css

css

42 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

3 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

17 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

21 ms

Accessibility Review

iarco.info accessibility score

81

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

75

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

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: