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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

irishindependent.com

Independent.ie

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

irishindependent.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to irishindependent.com homepage info - get ready to check Irish Independent best content right away, or after learning these important things about irishindependent.com

Read the latest news headlines and analysis about politics, sports, business, lifestyle and entertainment from award-winning Irish Journalists.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Irishindependent.com page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

irishindependent.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value15,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

irishindependent.com

258 ms

www.independent.ie

146 ms

loader.js

106 ms

site-all.css

63 ms

index.css

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 154 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Irishindependent.com, 66% (101 requests) were made to Focus.independent.ie and 12% (18 requests) were made to Independent.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Focus.independent.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (44%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Irishindependent.com main page is 4.4 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. HTML takes 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 305.3 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 1.8 MB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Irish Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 641.9 kB
  • After minification 641.7 kB
  • After compression 579.0 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

-30%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 88.1 kB
  • After minification 88.1 kB
  • After compression 61.3 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. Irishindependent.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.7 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (26%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

109

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Irish Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

irishindependent.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

irishindependent.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

irishindependent.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Irishindependent.com 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 Irishindependent.com 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

irishindependent.com

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