Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

teachingandlearning.ie

Homepage - National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

373 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

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About Website

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We are the national body responsible for leading and advising on the enhancement of teaching and learning in Irish higher education

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Key Findings

We analyzed Teachingandlearning.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 373 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

teachingandlearning.ie performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.897

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

teachingandlearning.ie

373 ms

www.teachingandlearning.ie

655 ms

js

86 ms

style.min.css

104 ms

icomoon-the7-font.min.css

227 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (99 requests) were addressed to the original Teachingandlearning.ie, 4% (5 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 (870 ms) belongs to the original domain Teachingandlearning.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 191.0 kB (79%)

Content Size

241.1 kB

After Optimization

50.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Teachingandlearning.ie main page is 241.1 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 228.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 190.9 kB

  • Original 228.6 kB
  • After minification 226.4 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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 190.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 108 B

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 87 (87%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Teaching And Learning. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 44 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

teachingandlearning.ie accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

teachingandlearning.ie best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

teachingandlearning.ie SEO score

84

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Teachingandlearning.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 Teachingandlearning.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 data is detected on the main page of Teaching And Learning. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: