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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

m.rte.ie

RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

m.rte.ie screenshot

About Website

Welcome to m.rte.ie homepage info - get ready to check M Rte best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about m.rte.ie

RTÉ news brings you the latest Irish news, world news, international news and up to the minute reports on breaking Irish news stories and news from around the world. Watch and listen to Irish news sto...

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.rte.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.rte.ie performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.341

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

m.rte.ie

43 ms

m.rte.ie

45 ms

www.rte.ie

161 ms

otSDKStub.js

48 ms

cookie-functions.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original M.rte.ie, 63% (109 requests) were made to Img.rasset.ie and 21% (37 requests) were made to Rte.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (528 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.rte.ie main page is 3.8 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. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 258.6 kB

  • Original 288.5 kB
  • After minification 288.4 kB
  • After compression 29.9 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. 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 258.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. M Rte images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 400.2 kB
  • After minification 400.2 kB
  • After compression 398.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 126 B

  • Original 157.6 kB
  • After minification 157.6 kB
  • After compression 157.5 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. M.rte.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (19%)

Requests Now

160

After Optimization

129

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 160 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Rte. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

m.rte.ie accessibility score

76

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

m.rte.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

m.rte.ie SEO score

76

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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 M.rte.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 M.rte.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

m.rte.ie

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