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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

pcicollege.ie

Counselling Courses, Psychotherapy Courses, Personal Development Courses, Professional Development Courses

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

328 ms

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About Website

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Established provider (1991) Counselling Courses which meet the criteria of IACP & validated by Middlesex University. Theoretical & Experiential Learning.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pcicollege.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 352 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

pcicollege.ie performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value950 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pcicollege.ie

352 ms

pcicollege.ie

835 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

421 ms

pci-v2.css

432 ms

css2

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Pcicollege.ie, 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Pcicollege.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pcicollege.ie main page is 2.7 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 34.8 kB

  • Original 44.7 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 6.2 kB, which is 14% 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 34.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Pcicollege images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 89.2 kB

  • Original 132.5 kB
  • After minification 131.4 kB
  • After compression 43.3 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 89.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 98.0 kB

  • Original 121.6 kB
  • After minification 110.3 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. Pcicollege.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (40%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pcicollege. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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352 ms

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835 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

421 ms

pci-v2.css

pci-v2.css

432 ms

css2

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40 ms

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remodal.css

264 ms

remodal-website-theme.css

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276 ms

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268 ms

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270 ms

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353 ms

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355 ms

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358 ms

slidebars.min.js

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362 ms

functions.js

functions.js

438 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

441 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

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526 ms

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78 ms

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180 ms

gtm.js

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134 ms

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136 ms

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107 ms

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252 ms

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77 ms

Accessibility Review

pcicollege.ie accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

pcicollege.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

SEO Factors

pcicollege.ie SEO score

73

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pcicollege.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Pcicollege.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

pcicollege.ie

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