Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

spar.ie

spar.ie | SPAR Ireland – Under the tree at SPAR

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spar.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 6.2 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

spar.ie performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value65.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.344

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value53.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spar.ie

145 ms

www.spar.ie

1535 ms

css2

33 ms

jquery.js

352 ms

theme.js

217 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Spar.ie, 10% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Spar.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (14%)

Content Size

16.3 MB

After Optimization

14.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Spar.ie main page is 16.3 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 15.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 93.6 kB

  • Original 113.1 kB
  • After minification 111.4 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 93.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 15.0 MB
  • After minification 13.7 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. SPAR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 524.3 kB

  • Original 731.4 kB
  • After minification 689.7 kB
  • After compression 207.0 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 524.3 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 438.4 kB

  • Original 527.4 kB
  • After minification 488.7 kB
  • After compression 89.0 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. Spar.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 438.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (66%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SPAR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

spar.ie accessibility score

88

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

spar.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

SEO Factors

spar.ie SEO score

79

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 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 Spar.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 Spar.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

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