Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

ballast-nedam.nl

Ballast Nedam | Nederlands bouw- en ontwikkelbedrijf

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

303 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

500 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ballast-nedam.nl page load time and found that the first response time was 303 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 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ballast-nedam.nl performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ballast-nedam.nl

303 ms

www.ballast-nedam.nl

1899 ms

MyFontsWebfontsKit.css

185 ms

MyFontsWebfontsKit_unhinted.css

857 ms

bootstrap.min.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Ballast-nedam.nl, 6% (5 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Ballast-nedam.nl.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 736.4 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ballast-nedam.nl main page is 5.0 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 75.0 kB

  • Original 83.7 kB
  • After minification 43.1 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 40.6 kB, which is 49% 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 75.0 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Ballast Nedam images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 323.1 kB

  • Original 470.3 kB
  • After minification 434.3 kB
  • After compression 147.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 323.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 334.9 kB

  • Original 600.7 kB
  • After minification 568.6 kB
  • After compression 265.9 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. Ballast-nedam.nl needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 334.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (43%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

38

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ballast Nedam. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ballast-nedam.nl accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ballast-nedam.nl best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

ballast-nedam.nl SEO score

91

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

    NL

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ballast-nedam.nl can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Dutch 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 Ballast-nedam.nl 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 Ballast Nedam. 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: