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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

brucity.be

City of Brussels

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

338 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

429 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Bru City content for Belgium. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about brucity.be

The official website of the City of Brussels, capital of Belgium: online services and appointments, news, events, webcams,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brucity.be page load time and found that the first response time was 338 ms and then it took 3.8 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

brucity.be performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.175

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brucity.be

338 ms

www.brussels.be

501 ms

font-awesome.min.css

60 ms

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84 ms

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170 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Brucity.be, 72% (79 requests) were made to Brussels.be and 5% (5 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Brussels.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 831.5 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brucity.be main page is 2.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 43.9 kB

  • Original 55.2 kB
  • After minification 54.7 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. 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 43.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 504.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 917.2 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, Bru City needs image optimization as it can save up to 504.9 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 246.2 kB

  • Original 472.1 kB
  • After minification 410.0 kB
  • After compression 225.9 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 246.2 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 13.4 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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. Brucity.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (58%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bru City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brucity.be

brucity.be

338 ms

www.brussels.be

www.brussels.be

501 ms

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60 ms

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84 ms

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170 ms

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257 ms

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252 ms

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63 ms

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416 ms

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70 ms

vegas.min.css

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57 ms

logo_vbx.png

logo_vbx.png

334 ms

globe.png

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251 ms

vousetes.png

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344 ms

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345 ms

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332 ms

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334 ms

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420 ms

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428 ms

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427 ms

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485 ms

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425 ms

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494 ms

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688 ms

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676 ms

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66 ms

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67 ms

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66 ms

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764 ms

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767 ms

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847 ms

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848 ms

jquery.ui.core.min.js

jquery.ui.core.min.js

902 ms

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js

86 ms

maplibre-gl.js

maplibre-gl.js

127 ms

turf.min.js

turf.min.js

129 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

76 ms

vegas.min.js

vegas.min.js

58 ms

jquery.ui.widget.min.js

jquery.ui.widget.min.js

916 ms

platform.js

platform.js

36 ms

jquery.ui.position.min.js

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854 ms

maplibre-gl.js

maplibre-gl.js

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jquery.ui.position-1.13.0-backport.js

796 ms

jquery.ui.menu.min.js

jquery.ui.menu.min.js

723 ms

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

jquery.ui.autocomplete.min.js

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owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

757 ms

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764 ms

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712 ms

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745 ms

colorbox_style.js

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763 ms

owlcarousel.settings.js

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747 ms

cookiebot.js

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757 ms

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17 ms

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708 ms

roadcalc.js

roadcalc.js

790 ms

autocomplete.js

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786 ms

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789 ms

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25 ms

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791 ms

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23 ms

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61 ms

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122 ms

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98 ms

Accessibility Review

brucity.be accessibility score

91

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 IDs 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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

brucity.be 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brucity.be SEO score

88

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

brucity.be

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