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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

be.brussels

Welcome on the website of the Brussels Capital-Region | Brussels-Capital Region

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

846 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

495 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Be.brussels page load time and found that the first response time was 846 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

be.brussels performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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846 ms

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169 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Be.brussels, 4% (4 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.media.agenda.be. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Be.brussels.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Be.brussels main page is 1.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 957.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 85.0 kB

  • Original 113.4 kB
  • After minification 101.4 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 12.0 kB, which is 11% 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 85.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.5 kB

  • Original 957.9 kB
  • After minification 929.4 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. Be images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 237.6 kB

  • Original 385.9 kB
  • After minification 385.9 kB
  • After compression 148.3 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 237.6 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 63 B

  • Original 224 B
  • After minification 202 B
  • After compression 161 B

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. Be.brussels needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63 B or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (40%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

56

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Be. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

be.brussels accessibility score

82

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

be.brussels best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

be.brussels SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Be.brussels can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed French language. Our system also found out that Be.brussels 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

be.brussels

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Be. 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: