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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

mirror.ie

Irish Mirror: the latest news, showbiz, football and sport

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

10.1 sec

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About Website

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

Irish Mirror, the latest Irish news, showbiz, football and sport. Plus the best from the Daily Mirror in world news, showbiz and Premier League football

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mirror.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mirror.ie performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,600 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.185

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mirror.ie

146 ms

www.irishmirror.ie

45 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

57 ms

choice.js

694 ms

section-base.css

81 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Mirror.ie, 32% (26 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 31% (25 requests) were made to S2-prod.irishmirror.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (702 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (50%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mirror.ie main page is 2.0 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 974.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 121.1 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 974.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 37.9 kB
  • After minification 18.0 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, Mirror needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.8 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 859.6 kB
  • After minification 859.6 kB
  • After compression 841.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Mirror.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (63%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mirror. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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45 ms

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450 ms

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100 ms

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388 ms

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tag

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Accessibility Review

mirror.ie accessibility score

87

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

mirror.ie best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mirror.ie SEO score

85

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

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 Mirror.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 Mirror.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

mirror.ie

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