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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

brusselslegal.com

International and EU law in Brussels | Brussels Legal

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

399 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

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About Website

Welcome to brusselslegal.com homepage info - get ready to check Brussels Legal best content right away, or after learning these important things about brusselslegal.com

BrusselsLegal is the centre of the legal community working with international and EU law in Brussels. Information on Brussels-based law firms, legal organisations and lawyers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brusselslegal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 399 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brusselslegal.com performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.214

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brusselslegal.com

399 ms

bootstrap.min.css

184 ms

main.css

196 ms

nivo-slider.css

183 ms

jquery.js

296 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Brusselslegal.com, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Www2.eurobrussels.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) belongs to the original domain Brusselslegal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 392.3 kB (41%)

Content Size

948.8 kB

After Optimization

556.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brusselslegal.com main page is 948.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 609.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 12.5 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.7 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 11.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 142.9 kB

  • Original 609.4 kB
  • After minification 466.5 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, Brussels Legal needs image optimization as it can save up to 142.9 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 126.5 kB

  • Original 190.4 kB
  • After minification 187.8 kB
  • After compression 64.0 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 126.5 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 111.6 kB

  • Original 133.6 kB
  • After minification 130.1 kB
  • After compression 22.1 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. Brusselslegal.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 111.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (21%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brussels Legal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brusselslegal.com

brusselslegal.com

399 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

184 ms

main.css

main.css

196 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

183 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

296 ms

legal_job_infobox.js

legal_job_infobox.js

199 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

200 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

272 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

30 ms

eb_banner_4.gif

eb_banner_4.gif

289 ms

K_F08.2011.jpg

K_F08.2011.jpg

333 ms

legal_jobs_json.php

legal_jobs_json.php

135 ms

site_background.jpg

site_background.jpg

548 ms

bl_logo.gif

bl_logo.gif

93 ms

jobs_slide.jpg

jobs_slide.jpg

379 ms

conference_slide.jpg

conference_slide.jpg

360 ms

brussels_lawyer_slide.jpg

brussels_lawyer_slide.jpg

283 ms

brulex_slide.jpg

brulex_slide.jpg

277 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

embl_logo_80x40.png

embl_logo_80x40.png

213 ms

Accessibility Review

brusselslegal.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

Best Practices

brusselslegal.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brusselslegal.com SEO score

90

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

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 Brusselslegal.com 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 Brusselslegal.com 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

brusselslegal.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Brussels Legal. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: