Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

mater.ie

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital | The Mater Hospital

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

377 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mater.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 377 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mater.ie performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mater.ie

377 ms

www.mater.ie

849 ms

index.css

497 ms

css

45 ms

font-awesome.min.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Mater.ie, 16% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Browsealoud.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Mater.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 904.7 kB (23%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Mater.ie main page is 3.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 403.5 kB

  • Original 470.4 kB
  • After minification 469.3 kB
  • After compression 66.9 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 403.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 336.9 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Obviously, Mater needs image optimization as it can save up to 336.9 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 164.2 kB

  • Original 270.8 kB
  • After minification 270.8 kB
  • After compression 106.6 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 164.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (16%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mater. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mater.ie accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

mater.ie best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mater.ie SEO score

79

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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