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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% 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

brussel.be

Stad Brussel

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

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About Website

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De officiële website van de Stad Brussel, hoofdstad van België: e-loket, online afspraak maken, nieuws, agenda, webcams,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brussel.be page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 4.1 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

brussel.be performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.17

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brussel.be

345 ms

www.brussel.be

656 ms

font-awesome.min.css

61 ms

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89 ms

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172 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Brussel.be, 5% (5 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Unpkg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Brussel.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 912.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brussel.be main page is 2.1 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 44.0 kB

  • Original 55.6 kB
  • After minification 55.1 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. 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 44.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-35%

Potential reduce by 505.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 931.9 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, Brussel needs image optimization as it can save up to 505.0 kB or 35% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 326.8 kB

  • Original 554.9 kB
  • After minification 492.8 kB
  • After compression 228.2 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 326.8 kB or 59% 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. Brussel.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 58 (58%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brussel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 40 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

brussel.be

brussel.be

345 ms

www.brussel.be

www.brussel.be

656 ms

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61 ms

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258 ms

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67 ms

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420 ms

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76 ms

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58 ms

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354 ms

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257 ms

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72 ms

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68 ms

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58 ms

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53 ms

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504 ms

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333 ms

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335 ms

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334 ms

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421 ms

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502 ms

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603 ms

cookiebot.js

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662 ms

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80 ms

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85 ms

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89 ms

roadcalc.js

roadcalc.js

722 ms

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iframe_api

79 ms

vegas.min.js

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62 ms

autocomplete.js

autocomplete.js

723 ms

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724 ms

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806 ms

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550 ms

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js

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59 ms

analytics.js

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40 ms

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22 ms

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1140 ms

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682 ms

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63 ms

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99 ms

Accessibility Review

brussel.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

brussel.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

brussel.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

    NL

  • Language Claimed

    NL

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Brussel.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 Brussel.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

brussel.be

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