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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

mercierpress.ie

Mercier Press - Ireland’s oldest independent publishing house

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

765 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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About Website

Visit mercierpress.ie now to see the best up-to-date Mercier Press content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mercierpress.ie

Mercier Press is Ireland’s oldest independent publishing house, based in Cork.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mercierpress.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 765 ms and then it took 6.8 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

mercierpress.ie performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.9 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mercierpress.ie

765 ms

upe_blocks.css

298 ms

style.min.css

499 ms

app.e9296f.css

375 ms

style.css

291 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Mercierpress.ie and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Mercierpress.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 418.8 kB (5%)

Content Size

8.7 MB

After Optimization

8.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Mercierpress.ie main page is 8.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 154.9 kB

  • Original 193.7 kB
  • After minification 187.6 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 154.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 263.9 kB

  • Original 8.5 MB
  • After minification 8.3 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. Mercier Press images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (22%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mercier Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.mercierpress.ie

www.mercierpress.ie

765 ms

upe_blocks.css

upe_blocks.css

298 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

499 ms

app.e9296f.css

app.e9296f.css

375 ms

style.css

style.css

291 ms

addtoany.min.css

addtoany.min.css

292 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

521 ms

wc-blocks.css

wc-blocks.css

295 ms

mini-cart-contents.css

mini-cart-contents.css

295 ms

packages-style.css

packages-style.css

301 ms

mini-cart.css

mini-cart.css

379 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

314 ms

MercierSeries_Black_80.svg

MercierSeries_Black_80.svg

124 ms

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biography_books_abstract_icon_white_stroke_on_dark_ba_6d9b83a2-c23c-43f1-9624-c6a2920988fa_01.webp

130 ms

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Memoir_biography_abstract_icon_white_stroke_on_dark_b_129f59a6-c472-43bf-ab4e-af4bc035a12b_11.webp

248 ms

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children_books_abstract_icon_white_stroke_on_dark_bac_3ed7d2b5-213c-48fa-89f9-eda50a0efcef_01.webp

360 ms

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452 ms

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non-fiction_books_abstract_icon_white_stroke_on_dark_54385727-1450-4930-a121-ddfd7b7381e8_0.png

176 ms

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irish_history_books_abstract_icon_white_stroke_on_dar_aac7fd6d-cccc-4bc9-8280-a96363c4c6ee_31a.webp

276 ms

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computer_books_abstract_icon_white_stroke_on_dark_bac_bfe8329b-d7ee-4f62-af0e-167a54c95eac_0.png

240 ms

ceoltoirichualann_cover-2.jpg

ceoltoirichualann_cover-2.jpg

1362 ms

Dark-Streets-1-4.png

Dark-Streets-1-4.png

1297 ms

PuppetMasterFrontCover-2.jpg

PuppetMasterFrontCover-2.jpg

1185 ms

9781781178638.jpg

9781781178638.jpg

727 ms

Proverbs_DepressionCover.jpg

Proverbs_DepressionCover.jpg

1396 ms

ThisisCorkWebpage-square.png

ThisisCorkWebpage-square.png

1185 ms

ReaveyBrothers_CoverRevised-1.jpg

ReaveyBrothers_CoverRevised-1.jpg

1145 ms

Step-into-Nature-RMcK-Front-1-3.jpg

Step-into-Nature-RMcK-Front-1-3.jpg

1444 ms

Summer-2024-Catalogue_144dpi_75-1.webp

Summer-2024-Catalogue_144dpi_75-1.webp

1347 ms

InisOir_CoverFinalstroke-scaled.jpg

InisOir_CoverFinalstroke-scaled.jpg

1526 ms

MyNameisPhilippaAMemoirbyPhilippaRyder1.png

MyNameisPhilippaAMemoirbyPhilippaRyder1.png

1671 ms

9781781178805-scaled.jpg

9781781178805-scaled.jpg

1982 ms

An-Tiogar-1.jpg

An-Tiogar-1.jpg

1604 ms

9781856350938.jpg

9781856350938.jpg

1760 ms

Full-and-Plenty.jpg

Full-and-Plenty.jpg

1562 ms

9781781178522.jpg

9781781178522.jpg

1718 ms

MercierStackedFrontis_White.svg

MercierStackedFrontis_White.svg

1736 ms

Accessibility Review

mercierpress.ie accessibility score

74

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

mercierpress.ie best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mercierpress.ie SEO score

77

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Mercierpress.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 Mercierpress.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

mercierpress.ie

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