Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 0

    SEO

library.nuim.ie

Library | Maynooth University

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

381 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

423 ms

library.nuim.ie screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Library Nuim content for Netherlands. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about library.nuim.ie

Maynooth University Library has over 450,000 books/eBooks and more than 42,000 electronic journal. We are dedicated to helping you with your research and studies during your time in Maynooth

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Key Findings

We analyzed Library.nuim.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 381 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

library.nuim.ie performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.219

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

library.nuim.ie

381 ms

library

372 ms

library

278 ms

library

412 ms

system.base.css

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Library.nuim.ie, 70% (90 requests) were made to Maynoothuniversity.ie and 3% (4 requests) were made to Libraryh3lp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Maynoothuniversity.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 981.1 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

913.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Library.nuim.ie main page is 1.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 816.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 74.7 kB

  • Original 89.2 kB
  • After minification 81.4 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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 74.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 47.5 kB

  • Original 621.4 kB
  • After minification 573.9 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. Library Nuim images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 538.4 kB

  • Original 816.6 kB
  • After minification 723.3 kB
  • After compression 278.2 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 538.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 320.4 kB

  • Original 367.4 kB
  • After minification 302.4 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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. Library.nuim.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 320.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (70%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Library Nuim. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

library.nuim.ie accessibility score

80

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

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

library.nuim.ie best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

library.nuim.ie SEO score

0

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 Library.nuim.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 Library.nuim.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 Library Nuim. 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: