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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ncla.ie

National Centre for Laser Applications - University of Galway

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

233 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

315 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ncla.ie homepage info - get ready to check Ncla best content right away, or after learning these important things about ncla.ie

NCLA is a research centre, based in NUI Galway, Ireland, that is focussed on laser materials processing research and development.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ncla.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 233 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ncla.ie performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ncla.ie

233 ms

ncla.ie

301 ms

nuig.css

429 ms

mammoth-style.css

415 ms

t4-hacks-2022.css

412 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Ncla.ie, 52% (33 requests) were made to Universityofgalway.ie and 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (603 ms) relates to the external source Universityofgalway.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ncla.ie main page is 1.5 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 36.0 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.0 kB, which is 29% 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 41.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 55.9 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. Ncla images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.2 kB

  • Original 188.2 kB
  • After minification 188.2 kB
  • After compression 175.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 47.5 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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. Ncla.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.4 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (40%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ncla. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ncla.ie

ncla.ie

233 ms

ncla.ie

ncla.ie

301 ms

nuig.css

nuig.css

429 ms

mammoth-style.css

mammoth-style.css

415 ms

t4-hacks-2022.css

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412 ms

compiled.js

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486 ms

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426 ms

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426 ms

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520 ms

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523 ms

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522 ms

table-sorter.min.js

table-sorter.min.js

80 ms

quick-search.js

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153 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

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217 ms

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261 ms

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260 ms

skin.css

skin.css

290 ms

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292 ms

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33 ms

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518 ms

local-2022.js

local-2022.js

549 ms

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603 ms

css2

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53 ms

css

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40 ms

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198 ms

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221 ms

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219 ms

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164 ms

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132 ms

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173 ms

Applications-800w.jpg

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307 ms

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173 ms

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163 ms

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163 ms

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172 ms

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171 ms

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163 ms

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268 ms

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265 ms

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268 ms

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220 ms

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304 ms

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267 ms

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307 ms

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306 ms

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309 ms

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309 ms

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307 ms

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341 ms

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167 ms

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549 ms

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43 ms

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106 ms

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79 ms

Accessibility Review

ncla.ie accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ncla.ie best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ncla.ie SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Ncla.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 Ncla.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

ncla.ie

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