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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thecostumeshop.ie

The Costume Shop.ie - Next Day Costume Delivery

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

142 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thecostumeshop.ie homepage info - get ready to check The Costume Shop best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about thecostumeshop.ie

With more Fancy Dress Costumes & party accessories than anywhere in Ireland & faster delivery. See why this is Ireland's most popular Costume shop.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecostumeshop.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 142 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecostumeshop.ie performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.447

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecostumeshop.ie

142 ms

www.thecostumeshop.ie

1275 ms

gtm.js

55 ms

standalone.8f907a59792f1818082675b130686bc51715604577.css

921 ms

jquery.min.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Thecostumeshop.ie, 5% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Themes.googleusercontent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thecostumeshop.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecostumeshop.ie main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 97.9 kB

  • Original 119.6 kB
  • After minification 119.2 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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 97.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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 Costume Shop images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 284.0 kB
  • After minification 284.0 kB
  • After compression 282.3 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.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 89.9 kB
  • After compression 84.7 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. Thecostumeshop.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (31%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Costume Shop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecostumeshop.ie

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142 ms

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1275 ms

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Accessibility Review

thecostumeshop.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.

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

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

thecostumeshop.ie best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thecostumeshop.ie SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Thecostumeshop.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 Thecostumeshop.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

thecostumeshop.ie

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