Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

the-european.eu

The European Magazine | European Business and Finance Magazine

Page Load Speed

14.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

12 sec

Page Rendered

714 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-european.eu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 12.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

the-european.eu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,360 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.207

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.the-european.eu

1500 ms

addthis_widget.js

15 ms

jquery-1.10.2.js

690 ms

run-tiles.js

190 ms

math.js

193 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original The-european.eu, 34% (27 requests) were made to Images.the-european.eu and 25% (20 requests) were made to Edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.6 sec) relates to the external source Edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (36%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of The-european.eu main page is 4.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 811.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 264.7 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 811.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. The European images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 697.1 kB

  • Original 952.5 kB
  • After minification 767.2 kB
  • After compression 255.4 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 697.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 75.6 kB

  • Original 99.3 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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. The-european.eu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 75.6 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (27%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The European. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

the-european.eu 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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

the-european.eu best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

the-european.eu SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise The-european.eu 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 The-european.eu 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 description is not detected on the main page of The European. 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: