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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

europarl.de

Startseite | Büro Berlin | Europäisches Parlament

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Europarl.de page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 4.4 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

europarl.de performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,290 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

de

258 ms

privacy-policy.js

148 ms

map.css

316 ms

behaviour.js

237 ms

initJahiaContext.js

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Europarl.de, 20% (17 requests) were made to Multimedia.europarl.europa.eu and 11% (10 requests) were made to Liaison-offices.europarl.europa.eu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Berlin.europarl.europa.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 858.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

8.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Europarl.de main page is 9.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 140.3 kB

  • Original 158.2 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 29.9 kB, which is 19% 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 140.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 672.3 kB

  • Original 8.8 MB
  • After minification 8.2 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. Europarl images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 91.0 kB
  • After minification 90.8 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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 45.6 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 691 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Europarl.de needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 691 B or 35% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (34%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Europarl. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

europarl.de accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

europarl.de 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

europarl.de SEO score

91

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

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

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Europarl.de can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Europarl.de 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 Europarl. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: