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Report Summary

About Website

Visit skillnets.ie now to see the best up-to-date Skillnet S content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about skillnets.ie

A national business support agency of the Irish Government, working with companies of all sizes to develop the talent they need to succeed.

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,870 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.347

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

skillnets.ie

513 ms

www.skillnetireland.ie

795 ms

gtm.js

74 ms

main.css

180 ms

picturefill.min.js

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Skillnets.ie, 92% (66 requests) were made to Skillnetireland.ie and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Skillnetireland.ie.

Content Size

9.7 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Skillnets.ie main page is 9.7 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 9.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 329.0 kB

Original 352.2 kB
After minification 249.0 kB
After compression 23.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 103.2 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 329.0 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

Original 9.1 MB
After minification 7.9 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. Obviously, Skillnet S needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 183.5 kB

Original 306.5 kB
After minification 302.0 kB
After compression 123.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 183.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 306 B

Original 21.5 kB
After minification 21.5 kB
After compression 21.2 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. Skillnets.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skillnet S. 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.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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/).

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 Skillnets.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 Skillnets.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

skillnets.ie

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

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Transforming Business Through Talent - Skillnet Ireland Homepage

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About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)