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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

ifca.ie

Irish Foster Care Association | IFCA | Supporting Foster Families

Page Load Speed

15.9 sec in total

First Response

435 ms

Resources Loaded

15.2 sec

Page Rendered

330 ms

ifca.ie screenshot

About Website

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

The Irish Foster Care Association is the national organisation for supporting foster families and the wider fostering community.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ifca.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 435 ms and then it took 15.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ifca.ie performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ifca.ie

435 ms

style.min.css

508 ms

styles.css

463 ms

slick.css

458 ms

recent-post-style.css

457 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ifca.ie and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Ifca.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 153.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

742.4 kB

After Optimization

589.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Ifca.ie main page is 742.4 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 598.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 118.5 kB

  • Original 143.5 kB
  • After minification 139.5 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 118.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 598.9 kB
  • After minification 564.4 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. IFCA images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (16%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IFCA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ifca.ie

ifca.ie

435 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

508 ms

styles.css

styles.css

463 ms

slick.css

slick.css

458 ms

recent-post-style.css

recent-post-style.css

457 ms

custom.css

custom.css

457 ms

avia-merged-styles-1919322adfc88dc3a70eab28d7c2af6d---663416d309d52.css

avia-merged-styles-1919322adfc88dc3a70eab28d7c2af6d---663416d309d52.css

623 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

787 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

782 ms

3-1.png

3-1.png

644 ms

Annual-National-Conference-2023-1.jpg

Annual-National-Conference-2023-1.jpg

552 ms

Knowledge-Bank-1.jpg

Knowledge-Bank-1.jpg

463 ms

learning-events.jpg

learning-events.jpg

470 ms

poppins-regular.ttf

poppins-regular.ttf

625 ms

poppins-medium.ttf

poppins-medium.ttf

599 ms

poppins-light.ttf

poppins-light.ttf

951 ms

poppins-extralight.ttf

poppins-extralight.ttf

1157 ms

poppins-thin.ttf

poppins-thin.ttf

1153 ms

poppins-semibold.ttf

poppins-semibold.ttf

1241 ms

poppins-bold.ttf

poppins-bold.ttf

1227 ms

poppins-extrabold.ttf

poppins-extrabold.ttf

1242 ms

poppins-black.ttf

poppins-black.ttf

1820 ms

entypo-fontello.woff

entypo-fontello.woff

1696 ms

IFCA-1-web.png

IFCA-1-web.png

1614 ms

phone-icon.png

phone-icon.png

1620 ms

email-icon.png

email-icon.png

1578 ms

donate-icon.png

donate-icon.png

1564 ms

homepage-main-banner-2.jpg

homepage-main-banner-2.jpg

1883 ms

winter-small.jpg

winter-small.jpg

1943 ms

National-Helpline-Advocacy-Service.png

National-Helpline-Advocacy-Service.png

1972 ms

Policy-Practice.png

Policy-Practice.png

1938 ms

Learning-Development.png

Learning-Development.png

2011 ms

Branches-and-hubs-2.png

Branches-and-hubs-2.png

2138 ms

Our-Promise-updated-banner.jpg

Our-Promise-updated-banner.jpg

2386 ms

iStock-1160742394-mobile.jpg

iStock-1160742394-mobile.jpg

2458 ms

become-a-member.jpg

become-a-member.jpg

2474 ms

iStock-518807610-mobile.jpg

iStock-518807610-mobile.jpg

2469 ms

tusla-logo.png

tusla-logo.png

2370 ms

pobal.png

pobal.png

2473 ms

govelogos-V3.png

govelogos-V3.png

2706 ms

fb.png

fb.png

2821 ms

twtt.png

twtt.png

2825 ms

insta.png

insta.png

2834 ms

lastone.png

lastone.png

2826 ms

location.png

location.png

2799 ms

fcall.png

fcall.png

2657 ms

mail.png

mail.png

2762 ms

message.png

message.png

2846 ms

Accessibility Review

ifca.ie accessibility score

77

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

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

ifca.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

ifca.ie SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Ifca.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 Ifca.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

ifca.ie

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