Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

unionchandlery.ie

UNION CHANDLERY - MARINE AND YACHT SUPPLIES

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

834 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

300 ms

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About Website

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Union Chandlery is Ireland's leading Marine and Yachting supplies store, including the best brands: Vetus, Torqueedo, International paint...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unionchandlery.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 834 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unionchandlery.ie performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,560 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.157

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.unionchandlery.ie

834 ms

css

23 ms

styles.css

823 ms

widgets.css

162 ms

layerslider.css

169 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Unionchandlery.ie, 4% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Unionchandlery.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (66%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

693.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Unionchandlery.ie main page is 2.0 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. Javascripts take 755.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 171.2 kB

  • Original 195.3 kB
  • After minification 170.6 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 24.7 kB, which is 13% 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 171.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 225.2 kB

  • Original 653.4 kB
  • After minification 428.3 kB

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, UNION CHANDLERY needs image optimization as it can save up to 225.2 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 574.9 kB

  • Original 755.8 kB
  • After minification 604.5 kB
  • After compression 180.9 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 574.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 354.9 kB

  • Original 415.4 kB
  • After minification 318.1 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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. Unionchandlery.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 354.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (53%)

Requests Now

103

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 103 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of UNION CHANDLERY. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

unionchandlery.ie accessibility score

86

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

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

unionchandlery.ie best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

unionchandlery.ie SEO score

91

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 Unionchandlery.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 Unionchandlery.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of UNION CHANDLERY. 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: