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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

learn.ie

Part-time Study at DkIT / DkIT - Dundalk Institute of Technology

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

327 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Learn.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 327 ms and then it took 6.2 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

learn.ie performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

learn.ie

327 ms

346 ms

gtm.js

90 ms

css

49 ms

css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Learn.ie, 65% (50 requests) were made to Dkit.ie and 10% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) relates to the external source Dkit.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Learn.ie main page is 3.6 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 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 78.0 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.2 kB, which is 16% 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 78.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Learn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 297.9 kB
  • After minification 297.1 kB
  • After compression 292.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 146.2 kB
  • After minification 146.2 kB
  • After compression 146.2 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. Learn.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (38%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Learn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

learn.ie

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327 ms

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90 ms

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49 ms

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463 ms

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56 ms

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GenerateIT

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23 ms

Accessibility Review

learn.ie accessibility score

76

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

learn.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

learn.ie SEO score

75

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

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 Learn.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 Learn.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

learn.ie

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