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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

cefic.org

Cefic is the European Chemical Industry Council. visit us on cefic.org

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

320 ms

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

278 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cefic content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cefic.org

Cefic, the most trusted & effective business association, is the voice of large, medium & small chemical companies across Europe. Martin Brudermüller, CEO BASF is Cefic President 2020-2023.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cefic.org page load time and found that the first response time was 320 ms and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cefic.org performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,440 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.907

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.5 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cefic.org

320 ms

www.cefic.org

1284 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

868 ms

grid.css

869 ms

cefic.css

1146 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Cefic.org, 9% (5 requests) were made to Google.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Cache.addthiscdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cefic.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 543.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cefic.org main page is 1.7 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 946.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 66.7 kB

  • Original 93.7 kB
  • After minification 87.4 kB
  • After compression 27.0 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 66.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 946.4 kB
  • After minification 907.9 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. Cefic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 331.5 kB

  • Original 508.1 kB
  • After minification 477.7 kB
  • After compression 176.6 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 331.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 106.4 kB

  • Original 124.3 kB
  • After minification 93.2 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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. Cefic.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 106.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (58%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cefic. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cefic.org

cefic.org

320 ms

www.cefic.org

www.cefic.org

1284 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.css

868 ms

grid.css

grid.css

869 ms

cefic.css

cefic.css

1146 ms

colours.css

colours.css

873 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

16 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.2.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.2.pack.js

866 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.1.pack.js

870 ms

jquery.tinycarousel.min.js

jquery.tinycarousel.min.js

1937 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

1962 ms

flowplayer-3.1.4.min.js

flowplayer-3.1.4.min.js

2022 ms

audio-player.js

audio-player.js

1955 ms

jquery.waterwheelCarousel.js

jquery.waterwheelCarousel.js

2047 ms

global.js

global.js

2039 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

11 ms

js

js

20 ms

mobile.css

mobile.css

3049 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

2890 ms

reset.css

reset.css

1809 ms

cse.js

cse.js

34 ms

twitter.gif

twitter.gif

61 ms

newsroom_1.jpg

newsroom_1.jpg

1386 ms

policy_1.jpg

policy_1.jpg

1457 ms

industry_2.jpg

industry_2.jpg

1802 ms

UN-SD-Sustainability.jpg

UN-SD-Sustainability.jpg

1484 ms

logo-cefic.gif

logo-cefic.gif

904 ms

search.gif

search.gif

942 ms

bg-banner-overlay.png

bg-banner-overlay.png

2149 ms

go.gif

go.gif

2137 ms

rss.gif

rss.gif

2155 ms

newsroom_1_210x120.jpg

newsroom_1_210x120.jpg

2228 ms

policy_1-210x120.jpg

policy_1-210x120.jpg

2240 ms

industry_2-210x120.jpg

industry_2-210x120.jpg

2284 ms

sustainability_2-210x120.jpg

sustainability_2-210x120.jpg

3060 ms

Circular%20Economy210-227-SdHomepage.jpg

Circular%20Economy210-227-SdHomepage.jpg

3055 ms

SDGoals-Logo-for-the-SD-Web-Section-Homepage210-227.jpg

SDGoals-Logo-for-the-SD-Web-Section-Homepage210-227.jpg

3056 ms

linkedin.gif

linkedin.gif

53 ms

email.gif

email.gif

53 ms

print.gif

print.gif

55 ms

more.gif

more.gif

54 ms

bg-grey-cnr.png

bg-grey-cnr.png

2941 ms

responsible_care.gif

responsible_care.gif

2942 ms

cse.js

cse.js

116 ms

ga.js

ga.js

11 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

66 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

35 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

31 ms

jsapi

jsapi

50 ms

default+en.css

default+en.css

7 ms

default.css

default.css

43 ms

default+en.I.js

default+en.I.js

17 ms

default.css

default.css

11 ms

print.css

print.css

1125 ms

Accessibility Review

cefic.org accessibility score

76

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

cefic.org best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cefic.org SEO score

96

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cefic.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cefic.org 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

cefic.org

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