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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 55

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

thepost.ie

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Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

941 ms

Page Rendered

406 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepost.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thepost.ie performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

88/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepost.ie

30 ms

www.businesspost.ie

63 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

13 ms

jquery-ui.css

11 ms

baobabPluginStyle.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 136 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thepost.ie, 87% (118 requests) were made to Businesspost.ie and 3% (4 requests) were made to Sundaybusiness.wpengine.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (515 ms) relates to the external source Sundaybusiness.wpengine.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (22%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thepost.ie main page is 5.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 81.1 kB

  • Original 99.2 kB
  • After minification 90.9 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 81.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 541.0 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Obviously, Thepost needs image optimization as it can save up to 541.0 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 360.6 kB

  • Original 531.9 kB
  • After minification 500.9 kB
  • After compression 171.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 360.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 139.8 kB

  • Original 169.9 kB
  • After minification 130.1 kB
  • After compression 30.1 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. Thepost.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (26%)

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

95

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thepost. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thepost.ie

thepost.ie

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Accessibility Review

thepost.ie accessibility score

55

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thepost.ie best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thepost.ie SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Thepost.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 Thepost.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

thepost.ie

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