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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

virginmediatelevision.ie

Virgin Media Television - Live and On-Demand on Virgin Media Player (formerly TV3 and 3player)

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

275 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

260 ms

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About Website

Welcome to virginmediatelevision.ie homepage info - get ready to check Virgin Media Television best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about virginmediatelevision.ie

Entertainment, News, Sport, Soaps and all your favourite Irish and International shows from Virgin Media Television live and on-demand.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virginmediatelevision.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 275 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virginmediatelevision.ie performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.635

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virginmediatelevision.ie

275 ms

www.virginmediatelevision.ie

579 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

34 ms

gtm.js

66 ms

bootstrap.min.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Virginmediatelevision.ie, 14% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.privacy-mgmt.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Virginmediatelevision.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.6 MB (77%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virginmediatelevision.ie main page is 4.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 62.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 3.5 MB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 943.8 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, Virgin Media Television needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.5 MB or 79% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 84.3 kB
  • After minification 84.3 kB
  • After compression 72.1 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 12.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 59.9 kB

  • Original 71.2 kB
  • After minification 56.6 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Virginmediatelevision.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 59.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virgin Media Television. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

virginmediatelevision.ie

virginmediatelevision.ie

275 ms

www.virginmediatelevision.ie

www.virginmediatelevision.ie

579 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

34 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

66 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

56 ms

css

css

62 ms

icons.css

icons.css

99 ms

global_responsive.css

global_responsive.css

260 ms

global.css

global.css

345 ms

home.css

home.css

263 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

51 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

259 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

50 ms

global_2017.js

global_2017.js

344 ms

gdpr-tcf.0b327789b5d246674c71.bundle.js

gdpr-tcf.0b327789b5d246674c71.bundle.js

10 ms

get_site_data

get_site_data

9 ms

meta-data

meta-data

104 ms

messages

messages

13 ms

pv-data

pv-data

10 ms

pv-data

pv-data

148 ms

cookienotice.css

cookienotice.css

89 ms

play.virginmediatelevision.ie

play.virginmediatelevision.ie

447 ms

VM_television_WHITE_HEX_Stacked.png

VM_television_WHITE_HEX_Stacked.png

174 ms

footer-facebook.png

footer-facebook.png

93 ms

footer-twitter.png

footer-twitter.png

89 ms

virgin-media-logo-red.png

virgin-media-logo-red.png

257 ms

live-now-desktop-one-logo.png

live-now-desktop-one-logo.png

255 ms

live-now-desktop-two-logo.png

live-now-desktop-two-logo.png

257 ms

live-now-desktop-three-logo.png

live-now-desktop-three-logo.png

259 ms

home-channels-bg.png

home-channels-bg.png

175 ms

button-arrow.png

button-arrow.png

253 ms

tv-guide-one-logo.png

tv-guide-one-logo.png

262 ms

tv-guide-one-logo-off.png

tv-guide-one-logo-off.png

344 ms

tv-guide-two-logo.png

tv-guide-two-logo.png

344 ms

tv-guide-two-logo-off.png

tv-guide-two-logo-off.png

345 ms

tv-guide-three-logo.png

tv-guide-three-logo.png

344 ms

tv-guide-three-logo-off.png

tv-guide-three-logo-off.png

346 ms

tv-guide-four-logo-2022.png

tv-guide-four-logo-2022.png

436 ms

tv-guide-four-logo-2022-off.png

tv-guide-four-logo-2022-off.png

428 ms

tv-guide-more-logo-white.png

tv-guide-more-logo-white.png

429 ms

tv-guide-more-logo-off.png

tv-guide-more-logo-off.png

430 ms

on-tonight-arrow.png

on-tonight-arrow.png

432 ms

infinity_logo.png

infinity_logo.png

433 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

38 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

48 ms

player-icons_11-webfont.woff

player-icons_11-webfont.woff

484 ms

player-icons_12-webfont.woff

player-icons_12-webfont.woff

478 ms

VMCircularWhisper-Light.otf

VMCircularWhisper-Light.otf

565 ms

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1273_1719917523.jpg

1043 ms

live-now-desktop-player-logo-red.png

live-now-desktop-player-logo-red.png

472 ms

VMCircularShout-Bold.otf

VMCircularShout-Bold.otf

621 ms

Accessibility Review

virginmediatelevision.ie accessibility score

46

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

virginmediatelevision.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

SEO Factors

virginmediatelevision.ie SEO score

80

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Virginmediatelevision.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 Virginmediatelevision.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

virginmediatelevision.ie

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