Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

thelifeofstuff.com

The Life Of Stuff - Irish Travel, Culture And Lifestyle

Page Load Speed

14.4 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

9.3 sec

thelifeofstuff.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The Life Of Stuff content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thelifeofstuff.com

The Life of Stuff - Irish Travel, Culture and Lifestyle. An Irish Travel Blog, Irish Culture Blog & Irish Lifestyle Blog rolled into one award-winning website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelifeofstuff.com page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 14.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelifeofstuff.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,710 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.284

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelifeofstuff.com

275 ms

thelifeofstuff.com

1718 ms

shareaholic.js

38 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

466 ms

style.min.css

579 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Thelifeofstuff.com, 17% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelifeofstuff.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (7%)

Content Size

26.8 MB

After Optimization

24.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Thelifeofstuff.com main page is 26.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 25.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 420.2 kB

  • Original 478.9 kB
  • After minification 467.9 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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. 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 420.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 25.9 MB
  • After minification 24.5 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 Life Of Stuff images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 127.4 kB

  • Original 432.4 kB
  • After minification 432.4 kB
  • After compression 305.0 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 127.4 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (28%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

63

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Life Of Stuff. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thelifeofstuff.com accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

thelifeofstuff.com 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

thelifeofstuff.com SEO score

83

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

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 Thelifeofstuff.com 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 Thelifeofstuff.com 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

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