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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

livinglanguage.ie

Living Language Contact - More than 44 years of experience

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

273 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

129 ms

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About Website

Visit livinglanguage.ie now to see the best up-to-date Living Language content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about livinglanguage.ie

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Key Findings

We analyzed Livinglanguage.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 273 ms and then it took 1.9 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

livinglanguage.ie performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.1 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

livinglanguage.ie

273 ms

www.livinglanguage.ie

456 ms

reset.css

174 ms

style.css

172 ms

quotes.css

175 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Livinglanguage.ie, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (532 ms) belongs to the original domain Livinglanguage.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 199.5 kB (54%)

Content Size

369.8 kB

After Optimization

170.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Livinglanguage.ie main page is 369.8 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 249.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 12.8 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.5 kB, which is 22% 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 12.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 249.0 kB
  • After minification 120.7 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. Obviously, Living Language needs image optimization as it can save up to 128.3 kB or 52% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 50.4 kB

  • Original 92.8 kB
  • After minification 91.6 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 50.4 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 11.7 kB
  • After minification 9.0 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Livinglanguage.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (19%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Living Language. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

livinglanguage.ie

livinglanguage.ie

273 ms

www.livinglanguage.ie

www.livinglanguage.ie

456 ms

reset.css

reset.css

174 ms

style.css

style.css

172 ms

quotes.css

quotes.css

175 ms

invalid.css

invalid.css

175 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

431 ms

quotes.js

quotes.js

175 ms

ga.js

ga.js

51 ms

logo.png

logo.png

95 ms

home.png

home.png

94 ms

telephone.png

telephone.png

94 ms

printer.png

printer.png

95 ms

eleve-souriant.jpg

eleve-souriant.jpg

97 ms

arrow_right.png

arrow_right.png

93 ms

walking-home.png

walking-home.png

355 ms

Zip.png

Zip.png

532 ms

blackboard.png

blackboard.png

186 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

268 ms

arrow_left.png

arrow_left.png

181 ms

pause_slider.png

pause_slider.png

185 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

print.css

print.css

88 ms

Accessibility Review

livinglanguage.ie accessibility score

72

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.

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

livinglanguage.ie best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

livinglanguage.ie SEO score

62

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Livinglanguage.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 Livinglanguage.ie main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

livinglanguage.ie

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