Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

tipperarystar.ie

The latest Tipperary news, business and sport from TipperaryLive.ie

Page Load Speed

9.5 sec in total

First Response

288 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

609 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tipperarystar.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 288 ms and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tipperarystar.ie performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,590 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.045

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tipperarystar.ie

288 ms

www.tipperarystar.ie

698 ms

jquery.min.js

45 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

198 ms

dotdotdot.js

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 449 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Tipperarystar.ie, 10% (45 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com and 6% (26 requests) were made to Ums.adtech.de. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Dsum-sec.casalemedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 374.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Tipperarystar.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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 157.9 kB

  • Original 186.7 kB
  • After minification 173.9 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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 157.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.1 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. Tipperary Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 197.4 kB

  • Original 372.2 kB
  • After minification 370.9 kB
  • After compression 174.8 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 197.4 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 316 (81%)

Requests Now

392

After Optimization

76

The browser has sent 392 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tipperary Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 89 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tipperarystar.ie accessibility score

79

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

tipperarystar.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

tipperarystar.ie 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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tipperarystar.ie can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Tipperarystar.ie main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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