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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

nationalaquarium.ie

Ireland’s Largest Native Species Aquarium | Galway Atlantaquaria

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

403 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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

A visit to Atlantaquaria is a great day out for visitors of all ages. Discover the diversity of life in our oceans, rivers, lakes, and canals. Buy tickets today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nationalaquarium.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 403 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nationalaquarium.ie performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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403 ms

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626 ms

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68 ms

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73 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Nationalaquarium.ie, 25% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 21% (11 requests) were made to Hb.wpmucdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Nationalaquarium.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 337.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Nationalaquarium.ie main page is 1.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 312.4 kB

  • Original 373.5 kB
  • After minification 371.0 kB
  • After compression 61.1 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 312.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. National Aquarium images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 167.7 kB
  • After minification 167.7 kB
  • After compression 156.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 80.0 kB
  • After minification 80.0 kB
  • After compression 66.6 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. Nationalaquarium.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.3 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (43%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of National Aquarium. 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 JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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403 ms

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Accessibility Review

nationalaquarium.ie accessibility score

88

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

nationalaquarium.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

nationalaquarium.ie SEO score

79

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

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 Nationalaquarium.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 Nationalaquarium.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

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