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The Bus offers a return service from Sligo to Dublin serving Mullingar, Longford, Dublin Airport, Carrick on Shannon. Thebus or the bus.ie
Visit thebus.ieWe analyzed Thebus.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.
thebus.ie performance score
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Value240 ms
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Value6.7 s
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Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Thebus.ie, 43% (16 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (546 ms) relates to the external source Facebook.com.
Page size can be reduced by 22.1 kB (4%)
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In fact, the total size of Thebus.ie main page is 537.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 519.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 11.4 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 11.4 kB or 67% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 10.5 kB
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. The Bus images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 104 B
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. Thebus.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 104 B or 12% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (37%)
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The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Bus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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thebus.ie accessibility score
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
<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Links do not have a discernible name
Internationalization and localization
These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.
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Issue
<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute
thebus.ie best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Issue
Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio
Serves images with low resolution
General
Impact
Issue
Browser errors were logged to the console
thebus.ie SEO score
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N/A
UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thebus.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Thebus.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.
thebus.ie
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Bus. 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: