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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

tu4dublin.ie

TU Dublin | Technological University Dublin

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

321 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

772 ms

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About Website

Visit tu4dublin.ie now to see the best up-to-date TU 4 Dublin content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about tu4dublin.ie

We provide pathways to graduation from apprenticeship to PhD. Our 30,000+ students learn in a practice-based environment informed by the latest research and enabled by technological advances.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tu4dublin.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 321 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tu4dublin.ie performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.332

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.7 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tu4dublin.ie

321 ms

www.tudublin.ie

724 ms

main.min.css

56 ms

t4extras.css

378 ms

inhouse.css

384 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Tu4dublin.ie, 40% (23 requests) were made to Pxl-tudublinie.terminalfour.net and 34% (20 requests) were made to Tudublin.ie. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (933 ms) relates to the external source Pxl-tudublinie.terminalfour.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 587.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tu4dublin.ie main page is 2.3 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 51.0 kB

  • Original 59.7 kB
  • After minification 50.4 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 9.2 kB, which is 16% 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 51.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. TU 4 Dublin images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 186.1 kB

  • Original 389.7 kB
  • After minification 384.9 kB
  • After compression 203.6 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 186.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 319.6 kB

  • Original 363.2 kB
  • After minification 278.0 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. Tu4dublin.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 319.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (53%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TU 4 Dublin. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tu4dublin.ie

tu4dublin.ie

321 ms

www.tudublin.ie

www.tudublin.ie

724 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

56 ms

t4extras.css

t4extras.css

378 ms

inhouse.css

inhouse.css

384 ms

otSDKStub.js

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69 ms

js

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80 ms

client-code.js

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48 ms

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136 ms

main.min.js

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67 ms

t4extras.js

t4extras.js

51 ms

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emergency.js

360 ms

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99 ms

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gtm.js

101 ms

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175 ms

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282 ms

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409 ms

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480 ms

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478 ms

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479 ms

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548 ms

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336 ms

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409 ms

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547 ms

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481 ms

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RevealingGrangegormanFamilyFun_Home.jpg

557 ms

StudentHousing_Home.png

StudentHousing_Home.png

555 ms

Scamwatch_Home.png

Scamwatch_Home.png

622 ms

BreakthroughScholarshipHome.jpg

BreakthroughScholarshipHome.jpg

557 ms

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655 ms

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621 ms

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637 ms

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636 ms

ORCID-Logo.png

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638 ms

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70 ms

tu-dublin-logo.svg

tu-dublin-logo.svg

403 ms

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384 ms

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369 ms

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390 ms

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375 ms

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tu-mark-outline.svg

388 ms

tu-dublin-logo-blue.svg

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679 ms

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50 ms

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645 ms

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669 ms

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69 ms

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583 ms

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601 ms

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875 ms

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Accessibility Review

tu4dublin.ie accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

tu4dublin.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

tu4dublin.ie SEO score

91

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 Tu4dublin.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 Tu4dublin.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

tu4dublin.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of TU 4 Dublin. 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: