Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

xlstores.ie

XL Stores - A great deal. More at your local store.

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

153 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

xlstores.ie screenshot

About Website

Visit xlstores.ie now to see the best up-to-date XL Stores content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about xlstores.ie

XL stores serve the local communities that they operate in, delivering great value, choice, service & exciting competitions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Xlstores.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 153 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

xlstores.ie performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.279

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

xlstores.ie

153 ms

xlstores.ie

1269 ms

font-awesome.min.css

50 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

58 ms

otSDKStub.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Xlstores.ie, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Xlstores.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (70%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

848.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Xlstores.ie main page is 2.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 59.3 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. 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 47.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 56.3 kB

  • Original 468.8 kB
  • After minification 412.5 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, XL Stores needs image optimization as it can save up to 56.3 kB or 12% 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 524.4 kB

  • Original 756.4 kB
  • After minification 743.6 kB
  • After compression 232.0 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 524.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 190.2 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. Xlstores.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (85%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of XL Stores. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

xlstores.ie accessibility score

93

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

xlstores.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

SEO Factors

xlstores.ie SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Xlstores.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 Xlstores.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

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