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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

waterfordcu.ie

Waterford Credit Union Homepage - Waterford Credit Union

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

415 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

596 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Waterford Cu content for Ireland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about waterfordcu.ie

Waterford Credit Union is one of the largest credit unions in Ireland. Branches in Parnell Street, Upper Grange and Tramore.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterfordcu.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 415 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waterfordcu.ie performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordcu.ie

415 ms

waterfordcu.ie

633 ms

css

47 ms

js

67 ms

js

147 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Waterfordcu.ie, 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterfordcu.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.5 kB (15%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterfordcu.ie main page is 3.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 318.4 kB

  • Original 369.1 kB
  • After minification 358.6 kB
  • After compression 50.6 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 318.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Waterford Cu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 72.4 kB

  • Original 438.8 kB
  • After minification 438.8 kB
  • After compression 366.5 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 72.4 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 32.8 kB

  • Original 192.8 kB
  • After minification 192.4 kB
  • After compression 160.0 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. Waterfordcu.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (73%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterford Cu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 54 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordcu.ie

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415 ms

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633 ms

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47 ms

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953 ms

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Accessibility Review

waterfordcu.ie accessibility score

89

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

waterfordcu.ie best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

waterfordcu.ie SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Waterfordcu.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 Waterfordcu.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

waterfordcu.ie

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