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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

lithicsireland.ie

Lithics Ireland. Lithic analysis and consultancy for the archaeological profession

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

318 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

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About Website

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Lithics Ireland. Lithic analyst Killian Driscoll provides lithic analysis and consultancy for the archaeological profession. Providing evaluation reports, post-excavation assessments, and publication ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lithicsireland.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 318 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lithicsireland.ie performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lithicsireland.ie

318 ms

lithicsireland.ie

736 ms

lithics.css

180 ms

sharethis.js

20 ms

irll15_map_1.html

2 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Lithicsireland.ie, 11% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Platform-api.sharethis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (992 ms) belongs to the original domain Lithicsireland.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

84.7 kB

After Optimization

80.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lithicsireland.ie main page is 84.7 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 55.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 3.4 kB or 59% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 93 B

  • Original 55.8 kB
  • After minification 55.7 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. Lithics Ireland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 402 B

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Lithicsireland.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 402 B or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lithics Ireland. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

lithicsireland.ie

lithicsireland.ie

318 ms

lithicsireland.ie

lithicsireland.ie

736 ms

lithics.css

lithics.css

180 ms

sharethis.js

sharethis.js

20 ms

irll15_map_1.html

irll15_map_1.html

2 ms

kd_logo_3.png

kd_logo_3.png

279 ms

Flake_volc_small.gif

Flake_volc_small.gif

280 ms

butt_trimmed_for_website_lowres.jpg

butt_trimmed_for_website_lowres.jpg

289 ms

chert_core_website_lowres.jpg

chert_core_website_lowres.jpg

292 ms

thornhill_core_52_lowres.jpg

thornhill_core_52_lowres.jpg

349 ms

bdg_bipolar_core_c206_e3_1897_lowres.jpg

bdg_bipolar_core_c206_e3_1897_lowres.jpg

352 ms

website_axe_two_copy.jpg

website_axe_two_copy.jpg

385 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

back_site_3_2.png

back_site_3_2.png

207 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

collect

collect

39 ms

js

js

100 ms

flake_volc_small.gif

flake_volc_small.gif

302 ms

flake_volc_small.gif

flake_volc_small.gif

992 ms

Accessibility Review

lithicsireland.ie accessibility score

89

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

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

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

Best Practices

lithicsireland.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

lithicsireland.ie SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lithicsireland.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 Lithicsireland.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

lithicsireland.ie

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