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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

smallbusinessadvice.ie

Home | Small Business Advice Ireland | Helping Small Business Grow

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

4.8 sec

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

591 ms

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About Website

Welcome to smallbusinessadvice.ie homepage info - get ready to check Small Business Advice best content right away, or after learning these important things about smallbusinessadvice.ie

Small Business Advice is a free and confidential advice service offered by Ireland’s business community to help small businesses grow.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smallbusinessadvice.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 4.8 sec and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smallbusinessadvice.ie performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smallbusinessadvice.ie

4763 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

260 ms

style.min.css

433 ms

styles.css

174 ms

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175 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Smallbusinessadvice.ie, 10% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Smallbusinessadvice.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (51%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smallbusinessadvice.ie main page is 4.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 430.5 kB

  • Original 503.3 kB
  • After minification 497.8 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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 430.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 81.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Small Business Advice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 453.1 kB

  • Original 680.2 kB
  • After minification 667.1 kB
  • After compression 227.1 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 453.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 152.2 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. Smallbusinessadvice.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (63%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Small Business Advice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

smallbusinessadvice.ie

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Accessibility Review

smallbusinessadvice.ie accessibility score

94

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

smallbusinessadvice.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

smallbusinessadvice.ie SEO score

93

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

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 Smallbusinessadvice.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 Smallbusinessadvice.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

smallbusinessadvice.ie

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