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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

census.nationalarchives.ie

National Archives: Census of Ireland 1901/1911

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

430 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Census.nationalarchives.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 430 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

census.nationalarchives.ie performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.2 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

census.nationalarchives.ie

430 ms

general.css

89 ms

home.css

177 ms

logo.gif

179 ms

Y3255.jpg

360 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Census.nationalarchives.ie and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (471 ms) belongs to the original domain Census.nationalarchives.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

345.9 kB

After Optimization

321.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Census.nationalarchives.ie main page is 345.9 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 332.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 6.3 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 808 B, which is 13% 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 4.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 332.2 kB
  • After minification 317.3 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. Census National Archives images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 7.5 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Census.nationalarchives.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Census National Archives. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

census.nationalarchives.ie

census.nationalarchives.ie

430 ms

general.css

general.css

89 ms

home.css

home.css

177 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

179 ms

Y3255.jpg

Y3255.jpg

360 ms

L_ROY_01978.jpg

L_ROY_01978.jpg

270 ms

general.css

general.css

104 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

265 ms

nav1_bgd.jpg

nav1_bgd.jpg

181 ms

nav2_bgd_top.gif

nav2_bgd_top.gif

97 ms

nav2_bgd_bottom.gif

nav2_bgd_bottom.gif

166 ms

header1_background.jpg

header1_background.jpg

191 ms

census_left1.jpg

census_left1.jpg

471 ms

census_left2.jpg

census_left2.jpg

346 ms

Accessibility Review

census.nationalarchives.ie accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

census.nationalarchives.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

SEO Factors

census.nationalarchives.ie SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Census.nationalarchives.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Census.nationalarchives.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

census.nationalarchives.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Census National Archives. 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: