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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thea.ie

THEA - The Technological Higher Education Association

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

598 ms

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About Website

Visit thea.ie now to see the best up-to-date THEA content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thea.ie

THEA is the voice of the technological higher education sector, advocating on behalf of and supporting our members in achieving their aims and objectives.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thea.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thea.ie performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.4

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thea.ie

251 ms

www.thea.ie

229 ms

www.thea.ie

420 ms

css

34 ms

font-awesome.min.css

27 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Thea.ie, 21% (15 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 20% (14 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (623 ms) belongs to the original domain Thea.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 327.6 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thea.ie main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 60.8 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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 13.2 kB, which is 18% 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 60.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 59.8 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. THEA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 184.1 kB

  • Original 377.7 kB
  • After minification 377.7 kB
  • After compression 193.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 184.1 kB or 49% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 60.7 kB
  • After minification 60.7 kB
  • After compression 37.8 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. Thea.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.9 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (39%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of THEA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thea.ie

thea.ie

251 ms

www.thea.ie

www.thea.ie

229 ms

www.thea.ie

www.thea.ie

420 ms

css

css

34 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

27 ms

jquery.restable.min.css

jquery.restable.min.css

42 ms

iziModal.min.css

iziModal.min.css

42 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

171 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

44 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

40 ms

createjs-2015.11.26.min.js

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42 ms

animation.js

animation.js

408 ms

jquery.lazyloadxt.js

jquery.lazyloadxt.js

241 ms

jquery.lazyloadxt.extra.min.js

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43 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

320 ms

iziModal.min.js

iziModal.min.js

47 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

50 ms

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

47 ms

jquery.restable.min.js

jquery.restable.min.js

53 ms

odometer.min.js

odometer.min.js

295 ms

main.js

main.js

294 ms

slick.min.css

slick.min.css

32 ms

slick-theme.min.css

slick-theme.min.css

13 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

82 ms

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238 ms

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238 ms

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254 ms

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343 ms

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276 ms

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307 ms

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322 ms

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343 ms

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374 ms

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390 ms

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410 ms

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623 ms

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25 ms

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64 ms

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15 ms

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5 ms

curator.css

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8 ms

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87 ms

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32 ms

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190 ms

logo.svg

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235 ms

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278 ms

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14 ms

Accessibility Review

thea.ie accessibility score

93

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

thea.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

SEO Factors

thea.ie SEO score

85

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

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 Thea.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 Thea.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

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