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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

united-drug.ie

United Drug | Ireland’s largest pharmaceutical distribution company.

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

787 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing United Drug content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about united-drug.ie

Providing supply chain excellence for nearly two centuries, we improve care in every setting, one product, one partner, one patient at a time. Our business spans across three business units; United Dr...

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Key Findings

We analyzed United-drug.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 3.5 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

united-drug.ie performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

23/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,490 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.united-drug.com

198 ms

loader.js

46 ms

uc-block.bundle.js

60 ms

theme.scss.css

56 ms

custom.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original United-drug.ie, 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.shopify.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to App.usercentrics.eu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (789 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.shopify.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 152.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of United-drug.ie main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 594.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 130.4 kB

  • Original 164.7 kB
  • After minification 143.1 kB
  • After compression 34.3 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 21.6 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 130.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 579.5 kB
  • After minification 565.2 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. United Drug images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 594.7 kB
  • After minification 594.7 kB
  • After compression 587.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 314 B

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.8 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. United-drug.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (77%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of United Drug. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.united-drug.com

www.united-drug.com

198 ms

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loader.js

46 ms

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60 ms

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56 ms

custom.css

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54 ms

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43 ms

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59 ms

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35 ms

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44 ms

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81 ms

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81 ms

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95 ms

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102 ms

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115 ms

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114 ms

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121 ms

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135 ms

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132 ms

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134 ms

js

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93 ms

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77 ms

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70 ms

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25 ms

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256 ms

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251 ms

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251 ms

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250 ms

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216 ms

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81 ms

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30 ms

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180 ms

Accessibility Review

united-drug.ie accessibility score

82

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Best Practices

united-drug.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

united-drug.ie SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 United-drug.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 United-drug.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

united-drug.ie

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