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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

shamrock.org

Ireland’s official holiday and travel guide | Ireland.com

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

311 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

762 ms

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About Website

Visit shamrock.org now to see the best up-to-date Shamrock content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about shamrock.org

Tourism Ireland’s website is packed with holiday ideas, information and advice to help you find accommodation, plan activities and see what’s on.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shamrock.org page load time and found that the first response time was 311 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

shamrock.org performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,170 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.374

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shamrock.org

311 ms

en-gb

446 ms

14 ms

gtm.js

829 ms

app.css

11 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Shamrock.org, 67% (18 requests) were made to Ireland.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (829 ms) relates to the external source Sgtm-fd.ireland.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 603.7 kB (72%)

Content Size

838.0 kB

After Optimization

234.3 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Shamrock.org main page is 838.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 675.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 591.9 kB

  • Original 675.1 kB
  • After minification 618.5 kB
  • After compression 83.2 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 591.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 141.8 kB
  • After minification 141.8 kB
  • After compression 136.6 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 21.1 kB
  • After minification 21.1 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. Shamrock.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.6 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (56%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shamrock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

shamrock.org

shamrock.org

311 ms

en-gb

en-gb

446 ms

14 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

829 ms

app.css

app.css

11 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

136 ms

mapbox-gl.css

mapbox-gl.css

20 ms

app.js

app.js

6 ms

css

css

38 ms

1d6b5255c7344416bb93a9964a794152.svg

1d6b5255c7344416bb93a9964a794152.svg

151 ms

chevron-right-green.svg

chevron-right-green.svg

82 ms

search-green.svg

search-green.svg

11 ms

close-modal.svg

close-modal.svg

14 ms

button-arrow-black.svg

button-arrow-black.svg

16 ms

green-cross.svg

green-cross.svg

16 ms

my-ireland.svg

my-ireland.svg

19 ms

button-arrow-green.svg

button-arrow-green.svg

18 ms

button-arrow-warning.svg

button-arrow-warning.svg

20 ms

ProximaNova-Regular.woff

ProximaNova-Regular.woff

20 ms

ProximaNova-Thin.woff

ProximaNova-Thin.woff

44 ms

ProximaNova-Bold.woff

ProximaNova-Bold.woff

44 ms

4191d447-9265-4df7-8567-4befee1b0da1.json

4191d447-9265-4df7-8567-4befee1b0da1.json

63 ms

location

location

101 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

44 ms

ioi_bold-webfont.woff

ioi_bold-webfont.woff

41 ms

ioi_regular-webfont.woff

ioi_regular-webfont.woff

4 ms

ioi_light-webfont.woff

ioi_light-webfont.woff

4 ms

Accessibility Review

shamrock.org accessibility score

74

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

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

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

shamrock.org 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

shamrock.org SEO score

86

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

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

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 Shamrock.org 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 Shamrock.org 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

shamrock.org

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