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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

midland.ie

Midland Construction | Building Contractors Ireland

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

406 ms

midland.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Midland content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about midland.ie

Midland Construction is a general building contractor based in Co. Meath, which has been trading since 1979, establishing a strong nationwide reputation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midland.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

midland.ie performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.21

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.midland.ie

2061 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

286 ms

styles.css

265 ms

swipebox.min.css

281 ms

settings.css

398 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (91 requests) were addressed to the original Midland.ie, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Midland.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Midland.ie main page is 5.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 75.5 kB

  • Original 89.6 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 75.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Midland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 587.8 kB

  • Original 854.6 kB
  • After minification 820.0 kB
  • After compression 266.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 587.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 947.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 150.2 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. Midland.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 947.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (51%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Midland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.midland.ie

www.midland.ie

2061 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

286 ms

styles.css

styles.css

265 ms

swipebox.min.css

swipebox.min.css

281 ms

settings.css

settings.css

398 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

617 ms

css

css

30 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

316 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

356 ms

style.css

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480 ms

responsive.css

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458 ms

animations.css

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406 ms

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557 ms

select2.css

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492 ms

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497 ms

nanoscroller.css

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554 ms

hover.css

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852 ms

dashicons.min.css

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681 ms

thickbox.css

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537 ms

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1290 ms

style.css

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950 ms

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647 ms

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759 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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726 ms

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753 ms

front.js

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830 ms

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1022 ms

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889 ms

css

css

17 ms

animate.min.css

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813 ms

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755 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

811 ms

thickbox.js

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847 ms

bootstrap.min.js

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874 ms

easing.js

easing.js

902 ms

jquery.parallax.js

jquery.parallax.js

902 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

1036 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

940 ms

jquery.nanoscroller.min.js

jquery.nanoscroller.min.js

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967 ms

TweenMax.min.js

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1034 ms

jquery.superscrollorama.js

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988 ms

template.js

template.js

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wp-embed.min.js

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963 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

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waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

991 ms

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jquery.countTo.js

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skrollr.min.js

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959 ms

analytics.js

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60 ms

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122 ms

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122 ms

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493 ms

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592 ms

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319 ms

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583 ms

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542 ms

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781 ms

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collect

23 ms

map-background.jpg

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688 ms

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166 ms

revolution.extension.slideanims.min.js

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revolution.extension.actions.min.js

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revolution.extension.navigation.min.js

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652 ms

revolution.extension.parallax.min.js

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loadingAnimation.gif

loadingAnimation.gif

631 ms

homepage-about.jpg

homepage-about.jpg

687 ms

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homepage-careers.jpg

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688 ms

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287 ms

Accessibility Review

midland.ie accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

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

midland.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

midland.ie SEO score

91

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

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 Midland.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 Midland.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

midland.ie

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