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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

brusselsgeek.com

Home | Presenter and Reporter | Jennifer Baker | Brusselsgeek

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

53 ms

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About Website

Welcome to brusselsgeek.com homepage info - get ready to check Brusselsgeek best content right away, or after learning these important things about brusselsgeek.com

Brusselsgeek is best known in Brussels for as well as a fun look at the EU’s week on social media for Euractiv, I also presented weekly programmes from the European institutions for Vieuws.eu for four...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brusselsgeek.com page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brusselsgeek.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.brusselsgeek.com

45 ms

minified.js

30 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

28 ms

polyfill.min.js

817 ms

thunderbolt-commons.7700cd07.bundle.min.js

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Brusselsgeek.com, 34% (12 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 34% (12 requests) were made to Sentry-next.wixpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (817 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill-fastly.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 345.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

788.7 kB

After Optimization

443.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Brusselsgeek.com main page is 788.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 388.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 297.0 kB

  • Original 388.6 kB
  • After minification 387.0 kB
  • After compression 91.6 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 297.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 96.6 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. Brusselsgeek images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 303.5 kB
  • After minification 303.5 kB
  • After compression 255.4 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 48.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (50%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brusselsgeek. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.brusselsgeek.com

www.brusselsgeek.com

45 ms

minified.js

minified.js

30 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

focus-within-polyfill.js

28 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

817 ms

thunderbolt-commons.7700cd07.bundle.min.js

thunderbolt-commons.7700cd07.bundle.min.js

18 ms

main.16c08821.bundle.min.js

main.16c08821.bundle.min.js

52 ms

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

main.renderer.1d21f023.bundle.min.js

50 ms

lodash.min.js

lodash.min.js

51 ms

react.production.min.js

react.production.min.js

50 ms

react-dom.production.min.js

react-dom.production.min.js

51 ms

siteTags.bundle.min.js

siteTags.bundle.min.js

51 ms

nsplsh_7973625457773468724734~mv2_d_5040_3360_s_4_2.jpg

nsplsh_7973625457773468724734~mv2_d_5040_3360_s_4_2.jpg

244 ms

EBU%20Jen%20Baker.jpeg

EBU%20Jen%20Baker.jpeg

318 ms

nsplsh_4a45774e51657267334873~mv2_d_5616_3744_s_4_2.jpg

nsplsh_4a45774e51657267334873~mv2_d_5616_3744_s_4_2.jpg

257 ms

SkyNews.jpeg

SkyNews.jpeg

253 ms

a3c153_37bd778220b64f369d9d9528cce39ed8~mv2.jpg

a3c153_37bd778220b64f369d9d9528cce39ed8~mv2.jpg

125 ms

bundle.min.js

bundle.min.js

37 ms

file.woff

file.woff

58 ms

file.woff

file.woff

66 ms

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135 ms

deprecation-en.v5.html

deprecation-en.v5.html

5 ms

bolt-performance

bolt-performance

19 ms

deprecation-style.v5.css

deprecation-style.v5.css

5 ms

right-arrow.svg

right-arrow.svg

6 ms

Accessibility Review

brusselsgeek.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

brusselsgeek.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

brusselsgeek.com SEO score

97

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

brusselsgeek.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Brusselsgeek. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: