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Report Summary

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ncirl content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ncirl.ie

HEA-funded, third-level college based in Dublin's IFSC area, offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business, computing, psychology & education.

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

77/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.8 s

10/100

10%

ncirl.ie

270 ms

www.ncirl.ie

190 ms

www.ncirl.ie

1198 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

104 ms

otSDKStub.js

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (99 requests) were addressed to the original Ncirl.ie, 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ncirl.ie.

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Ncirl.ie main page is 2.4 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. 75% 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. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 181.7 kB

Original 225.2 kB
After minification 204.9 kB
After compression 43.5 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 181.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 317.3 kB

Original 2.0 MB
After minification 1.7 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. Obviously, Ncirl needs image optimization as it can save up to 317.3 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 52 B

Original 19.8 kB
After minification 19.8 kB
After compression 19.8 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

-88%

Potential reduce by 85.8 kB

Original 97.1 kB
After minification 62.8 kB
After compression 11.3 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. Ncirl.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 85.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Now

102

After Optimization

The browser has sent 102 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ncirl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Ncirl.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 Ncirl.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

ncirl.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Ncirl. 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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

National College of Ireland | Award-Winning Dublin College

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)