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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

igate.ie

Home | IGate

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

743 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Igate.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 3.3 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

igate.ie performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,210 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.704

7/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

igate.ie

169 ms

www.igate.ie

352 ms

css

40 ms

3ea698cf4ec4e96dcb6082972f84eaef.css

486 ms

js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Igate.ie, 6% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Igate.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 661.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Igate.ie main page is 5.4 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 68.6 kB
  • After minification 64.8 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 56.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 273.7 kB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.4 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. IGate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 184.4 kB
  • After minification 184.4 kB
  • After compression 181.8 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

-85%

Potential reduce by 329.2 kB

  • Original 389.4 kB
  • After minification 388.7 kB
  • After compression 60.2 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. Igate.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 329.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (17%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

63

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IGate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

igate.ie

igate.ie

169 ms

www.igate.ie

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352 ms

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40 ms

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3ea698cf4ec4e96dcb6082972f84eaef.css

486 ms

js

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100 ms

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680 ms

ga.js

ga.js

164 ms

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248 ms

IGate-logo.png

IGate-logo.png

132 ms

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219 ms

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217 ms

ig-home-workwear.svg

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500 ms

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502 ms

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Sustainability-01.svg

500 ms

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503 ms

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504 ms

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645 ms

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736 ms

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646 ms

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647 ms

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712 ms

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649 ms

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962 ms

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673 ms

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649 ms

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651 ms

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672 ms

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673 ms

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834 ms

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934 ms

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833 ms

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837 ms

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837 ms

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839 ms

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932 ms

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977 ms

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932 ms

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963 ms

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1064 ms

Caroline-1.jpg

Caroline-1.jpg

998 ms

Caroline_2.jpg

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1058 ms

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16 ms

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920 ms

John_Dunne-1.jpg

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945 ms

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www-player.css

7 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

35 ms

base.js

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71 ms

ad_status.js

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215 ms

John_Dunne_2.jpg

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732 ms

Louise-Caffery-1.jpg

Louise-Caffery-1.jpg

657 ms

Louise_Caffery_2.jpg

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669 ms

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722 ms

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159 ms

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57 ms

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585 ms

Cathal-1.jpg

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596 ms

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616 ms

John_G_1.jpg

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609 ms

John_G_2.jpg

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660 ms

Sean-1.jpg

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664 ms

Sean_2.jpg

Sean_2.jpg

648 ms

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654 ms

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668 ms

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37 ms

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47 ms

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690 ms

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40 ms

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683 ms

Create

Create

110 ms

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Trustpilot_brandmark_gr-blk_RGB.png

663 ms

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stars-copy-4.png

568 ms

IGateLogo.jpg

IGateLogo.jpg

576 ms

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ig-footer-social-email.png

588 ms

ig-footer-social-phone.png

ig-footer-social-phone.png

628 ms

ig-footer-social-map.png

ig-footer-social-map.png

549 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

14 ms

Accessibility Review

igate.ie accessibility score

88

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

igate.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

igate.ie SEO score

79

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

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 Igate.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 Igate.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

igate.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of IGate. 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: