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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

shadestudio.ie

Graphic Design - Web Design Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

220 ms

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About Website

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We are a boutique graphic design and website design company based in County Meath, Ireland. Since 2004 we have been designing websites, business identities

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shadestudio.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 2 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

shadestudio.ie performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shadestudio.ie

293 ms

www.shadestudio.ie

387 ms

navBrand.css

104 ms

css.css

189 ms

jquery.min.js

426 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Shadestudio.ie, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (670 ms) belongs to the original domain Shadestudio.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 425.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

697.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shadestudio.ie main page is 1.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 545.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 52.6 kB
  • After minification 52.0 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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 36.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 515.9 kB
  • After minification 484.2 kB

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. Shadestudio images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 350.2 kB

  • Original 545.4 kB
  • After minification 531.8 kB
  • After compression 195.3 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 350.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Shadestudio.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (30%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shadestudio. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shadestudio.ie

shadestudio.ie

293 ms

www.shadestudio.ie

www.shadestudio.ie

387 ms

navBrand.css

navBrand.css

104 ms

css.css

css.css

189 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

426 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

239 ms

jquerycyclelite.js

jquerycyclelite.js

249 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

442 ms

Trippoli.font.js

Trippoli.font.js

341 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

13 ms

gplus-16.png

gplus-16.png

168 ms

tile.png

tile.png

165 ms

pix.gif

pix.gif

165 ms

ga.js

ga.js

132 ms

brnTle.png

brnTle.png

341 ms

SS_Sig.png

SS_Sig.png

363 ms

sprite_nav.png

sprite_nav.png

494 ms

siteWhite.png

siteWhite.png

670 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

108 ms

flikr.png

flikr.png

98 ms

youtube.png

youtube.png

195 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

Accessibility Review

shadestudio.ie accessibility score

84

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.

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

shadestudio.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

SEO Factors

shadestudio.ie SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Shadestudio.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 Shadestudio.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

shadestudio.ie

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