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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thecai.ie

Consumers' Association of Ireland | Protecting Irish Consumers

Page Load Speed

8.2 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

265 ms

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About Website

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An independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, registered with charitable status and working on behalf of Irish consumers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecai.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecai.ie performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.527

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecai.ie

2368 ms

style.css

170 ms

thecai.ie

1271 ms

styles.css

172 ms

ctf-styles.min.css

263 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Thecai.ie, 22% (24 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecai.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (49%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecai.ie main page is 4.2 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

-86%

Potential reduce by 150.8 kB

  • Original 174.9 kB
  • After minification 172.0 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. 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 150.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 102.2 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. Thecai images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 948.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 275.9 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 948.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 878.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 893.7 kB
  • After compression 133.7 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. Thecai.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 878.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (69%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thecai. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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2368 ms

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170 ms

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213 ms

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214 ms

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261 ms

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385 ms

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86 ms

Accessibility Review

thecai.ie accessibility score

71

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

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

thecai.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

thecai.ie SEO score

86

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

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 Thecai.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 Thecai.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

thecai.ie

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