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Report Summary

About Website

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

Homepage of the national water utility, Uisce Éireann (formerly Irish Water). Navigate through the site using the links on this page.

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,510 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

water.ie

231 ms

www.water.ie

879 ms

css

59 ms

index.css

359 ms

modernizr.js

308 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Water.ie, 15% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Babm.texthelp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (879 ms) belongs to the original domain Water.ie.

Content Size

578.3 kB

After Optimization

251.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Water.ie main page is 578.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 392.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

Original 37.8 kB
After minification 36.5 kB
After compression 7.6 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. 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 30.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 24.9 kB

Original 146.4 kB
After minification 121.6 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, Water needs image optimization as it can save up to 24.9 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 270.8 kB

Original 392.8 kB
After minification 392.7 kB
After compression 122.0 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 270.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 937 B

Original 1.3 kB
After minification 1.2 kB
After compression 348 B

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. Water.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 937 B or 73% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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 Water.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 Water.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

water.ie

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

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Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)