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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

waterfordculturalquarter.ie

Waterford Cultural Quarter Home – Waterford Cultural Quarter

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

614 ms

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About Website

Visit waterfordculturalquarter.ie now to see the best up-to-date Waterford Cultural Quarter content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about waterfordculturalquarter.ie

Waterford Cultural Quarter is a project currently being managed by Waterford City & County Council and is led by a steering group of individuals and organisations based on the cultural and creative se...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterfordculturalquarter.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

waterfordculturalquarter.ie performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.7 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordculturalquarter.ie

1486 ms

js

86 ms

style.min.css

372 ms

js

80 ms

analytics.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Waterfordculturalquarter.ie, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterfordculturalquarter.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterfordculturalquarter.ie main page is 3.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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 56.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 549.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Obviously, Waterford Cultural Quarter needs image optimization as it can save up to 549.0 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 297.3 kB

  • Original 452.1 kB
  • After minification 450.8 kB
  • After compression 154.8 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 297.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 240.3 kB

  • Original 287.0 kB
  • After minification 284.9 kB
  • After compression 46.7 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. Waterfordculturalquarter.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 240.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (55%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterford Cultural Quarter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordculturalquarter.ie

waterfordculturalquarter.ie

1486 ms

js

js

86 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

372 ms

js

js

80 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

22 ms

styles.css

styles.css

229 ms

fl-icons.css

fl-icons.css

283 ms

flatsome.css

flatsome.css

642 ms

style.css

style.css

284 ms

css

css

38 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

294 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

561 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

465 ms

collect

collect

19 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

341 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

360 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

548 ms

index.js

index.js

447 ms

flatsome-live-search.js

flatsome-live-search.js

460 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

520 ms

flatsome.js

flatsome.js

810 ms

collect

collect

51 ms

WCQ-logo-Primary.jpg

WCQ-logo-Primary.jpg

423 ms

1000000700-400x400.webp

1000000700-400x400.webp

292 ms

WCQ-logo-Primary-684x400.jpg

WCQ-logo-Primary-684x400.jpg

291 ms

Quaker-Trail-564x400.png

Quaker-Trail-564x400.png

538 ms

Vertical-Studio-5-1230x800.jpg

Vertical-Studio-5-1230x800.jpg

297 ms

Manhattan-Music-1108x800.jpg

Manhattan-Music-1108x800.jpg

358 ms

WCQ-logo-Primary-1368x800.jpg

WCQ-logo-Primary-1368x800.jpg

360 ms

Waterford-City-and-County-Logo-768x300.jpg

Waterford-City-and-County-Logo-768x300.jpg

298 ms

EU-Flag-LD-599x400.jpg

EU-Flag-LD-599x400.jpg

420 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

26 ms

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

S6u9w4BMUTPHh6UVSwiPHA.ttf

36 ms

fl-icons.ttf

fl-icons.ttf

366 ms

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If2cXTr6YS-zF4S-kcSWSVi_sxjsohD9F50Ruu7BMSo3Sup5.ttf

37 ms

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014_WW2017_Emagine_highres-1200x800.jpg

222 ms

Accessibility Review

waterfordculturalquarter.ie accessibility score

85

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

waterfordculturalquarter.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

waterfordculturalquarter.ie SEO score

93

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

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 Waterfordculturalquarter.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 Waterfordculturalquarter.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

waterfordculturalquarter.ie

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