Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

brother.be

Brother.be | De officiële website van Brother België

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

230 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

123 ms

brother.be screenshot

About Website

Visit brother.be now to see the best up-to-date Brother content for Belgium and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about brother.be

De officiële website van Brother België. Ontdek onze oplossingen om te printen, kopiëren, scannen, faxen en labelen.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brother.be page load time and found that the first response time was 230 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brother.be performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,300 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brother.be

230 ms

www.brother.be

704 ms

master-normalise.css

161 ms

master-global.css

168 ms

jquery.min.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Brother.be, 8% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (704 ms) belongs to the original domain Brother.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 660.2 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

619.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Brother.be main page is 1.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 548.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 29.2 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.8 kB, which is 34% 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 22.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 92.8 kB

  • Original 548.1 kB
  • After minification 455.3 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. Obviously, Brother needs image optimization as it can save up to 92.8 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 344.7 kB

  • Original 463.3 kB
  • After minification 374.1 kB
  • After compression 118.5 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 344.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 199.8 kB

  • Original 239.0 kB
  • After minification 199.8 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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. Brother.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (52%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brother. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

brother.be accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

brother.be best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brother.be SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    NL

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Brother.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Dutch is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Brother.be main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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