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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

ncc.ie

Chemical Distribution - NCC - The National Chemical Company

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

509 ms

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About Website

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

NCC (The National Chemical Company) are an established leading raw material supplier and sourcing specialist of Chemicals and Polymers

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncc.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncc.ie performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.083

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncc.ie

280 ms

www.ncc.ie

1439 ms

gtm.js

74 ms

0556a.css

220 ms

css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Ncc.ie, 12% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncc.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ncc.ie main page is 3.6 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. 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. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 150.6 kB

  • Original 185.0 kB
  • After minification 185.0 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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 150.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 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. NCC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 603.0 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 1.4 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 79.2 kB

  • Original 227.1 kB
  • After minification 148.1 kB
  • After compression 147.9 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. Ncc.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.2 kB or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (69%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NCC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ncc.ie

ncc.ie

280 ms

www.ncc.ie

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1439 ms

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74 ms

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220 ms

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48 ms

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316 ms

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69 ms

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503 ms

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418 ms

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316 ms

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530 ms

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407 ms

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772 ms

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797 ms

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570 ms

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605 ms

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603 ms

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690 ms

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940 ms

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875 ms

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940 ms

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940 ms

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962 ms

theme.js

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953 ms

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953 ms

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952 ms

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952 ms

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maps_points.js

1019 ms

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1122 ms

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1120 ms

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1120 ms

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1120 ms

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40 ms

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28 ms

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100 ms

Accessibility Review

ncc.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

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

ncc.ie best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ncc.ie SEO score

78

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

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 doesn't use 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 Ncc.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 Ncc.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

ncc.ie

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