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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

irishcharts.ie

The Irish Charts - All there is to know

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

516 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

127 ms

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About Website

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

Hello, you're very welcome to Ireland's official Singles Charts archives website. The Irish charts started on October 1st 1962 when RTE broadcast Ireland's first Top Ten compiled by Jimmy Magee. Since...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irishcharts.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 516 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irishcharts.ie performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.2 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irishcharts.ie

516 ms

charts.css

108 ms

scripts.js

216 ms

top_diag_fill.gif

111 ms

shim.gif

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Irishcharts.ie and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (750 ms) belongs to the original domain Irishcharts.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

97.7 kB

After Optimization

83.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Irishcharts.ie main page is 97.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 79.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 10.8 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 1.9 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 10.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 79.5 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. Irish Charts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 590 B

  • Original 1.0 kB
  • After minification 946 B
  • After compression 452 B

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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 590 B or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 802 B

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. Irishcharts.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (61%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irish Charts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

irishcharts.ie

irishcharts.ie

516 ms

charts.css

charts.css

108 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

216 ms

top_diag_fill.gif

top_diag_fill.gif

111 ms

shim.gif

shim.gif

111 ms

top_orange_fill.gif

top_orange_fill.gif

216 ms

logo_hdr1.jpg

logo_hdr1.jpg

216 ms

logo_hdr2.jpg

logo_hdr2.jpg

216 ms

logo_hdr3.jpg

logo_hdr3.jpg

217 ms

logo_hdr4.jpg

logo_hdr4.jpg

218 ms

logo_hdr5.jpg

logo_hdr5.jpg

218 ms

logo_hdr6.jpg

logo_hdr6.jpg

322 ms

logo_hdr7.jpg

logo_hdr7.jpg

323 ms

logo_hdr8.jpg

logo_hdr8.jpg

324 ms

nav_bg_fill.gif

nav_bg_fill.gif

325 ms

nav_hdr.gif

nav_hdr.gif

325 ms

home2.gif

home2.gif

326 ms

search1.gif

search1.gif

428 ms

birthday1.gif

birthday1.gif

429 ms

christmas1.gif

christmas1.gif

430 ms

eurovision1.gif

eurovision1.gif

430 ms

combined1.gif

combined1.gif

432 ms

toptwenty1.gif

toptwenty1.gif

432 ms

facts1.gif

facts1.gif

534 ms

awards1.gif

awards1.gif

535 ms

history1.gif

history1.gif

535 ms

links1.gif

links1.gif

536 ms

faq1.gif

faq1.gif

539 ms

contact1.gif

contact1.gif

539 ms

nav_bg.gif

nav_bg.gif

641 ms

nav_irma.gif

nav_irma.gif

641 ms

awards_spiders.gif

awards_spiders.gif

642 ms

awards_dma.gif

awards_dma.gif

643 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

654 ms

welcome.gif

welcome.gif

647 ms

larry_sig.gif

larry_sig.gif

746 ms

larry1.jpg

larry1.jpg

747 ms

larry2.jpg

larry2.jpg

750 ms

promusic.gif

promusic.gif

749 ms

fireball_logo.gif

fireball_logo.gif

652 ms

search2.gif

search2.gif

111 ms

birthday2.gif

birthday2.gif

110 ms

christmas2.gif

christmas2.gif

115 ms

eurovision2.gif

eurovision2.gif

112 ms

facts2.gif

facts2.gif

114 ms

awards2.gif

awards2.gif

112 ms

history2.gif

history2.gif

216 ms

links2.gif

links2.gif

216 ms

contact2.gif

contact2.gif

217 ms

toptwenty2.gif

toptwenty2.gif

216 ms

faq2.gif

faq2.gif

217 ms

Accessibility Review

irishcharts.ie accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

irishcharts.ie best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

irishcharts.ie SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Irishcharts.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Irishcharts.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

irishcharts.ie

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