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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sint-niklaas.be

Welkom | Stad Sint-Niklaas

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

547 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

566 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sint-niklaas.be page load time and found that the first response time was 547 ms 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

sint-niklaas.be performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,160 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sint-niklaas.be

547 ms

otSDKStub.js

36 ms

core.css

204 ms

autocomplete.css

249 ms

menu.css

286 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (156 requests) were addressed to the original Sint-niklaas.be, 3% (6 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (821 ms) belongs to the original domain Sint-niklaas.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 267.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sint-niklaas.be main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 986.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 199.0 kB

  • Original 255.3 kB
  • After minification 245.2 kB
  • After compression 56.3 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 199.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 986.3 kB
  • After minification 946.5 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. Sint Niklaas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 256.7 kB
  • After minification 254.9 kB
  • After compression 248.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 19.9 kB

  • Original 97.3 kB
  • After minification 90.4 kB
  • After compression 77.4 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. Sint-niklaas.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.9 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 144 (86%)

Requests Now

168

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 168 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sint Niklaas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 76 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sint-niklaas.be accessibility score

87

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sint-niklaas.be 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sint-niklaas.be SEO score

92

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

    NL

  • Language Claimed

    NL

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sint-niklaas.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Dutch is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Sint-niklaas.be 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 Sint Niklaas. 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: