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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

thecoast.ie

COAST - East Coast FM

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

421 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thecoast.ie homepage info - get ready to check The COAST best content right away, or after learning these important things about thecoast.ie

East Coast FM - Wicklow's Favourite Radio Station

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecoast.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 290 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecoast.ie performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.192

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecoast.ie

290 ms

879 ms

afe-f98a36ef05.min.css

59 ms

jquery-3.7.1.min.js

45 ms

runtime.9cf30c7a7a5f9968ca9a.js

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thecoast.ie, 26% (12 requests) were made to Mmo.aiircdn.com and 13% (6 requests) were made to Mm.aiircdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (879 ms) relates to the external source Eastcoast.fm.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 398.5 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecoast.ie main page is 2.4 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 28.1 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 8.2 kB, which is 23% 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 27.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 36.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 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. The COAST images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 334.7 kB

  • Original 625.1 kB
  • After minification 625.1 kB
  • After compression 290.4 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 334.7 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 94 B

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 18.0 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. Thecoast.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (29%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The COAST. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecoast.ie

thecoast.ie

290 ms

879 ms

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59 ms

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45 ms

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79 ms

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89 ms

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43 ms

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95 ms

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76 ms

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77 ms

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197 ms

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103 ms

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202 ms

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t.php

241 ms

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zrt_lookup.html

135 ms

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ads

160 ms

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Accessibility Review

thecoast.ie accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thecoast.ie best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thecoast.ie SEO score

88

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

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 Thecoast.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 Thecoast.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

thecoast.ie

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