Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

clerens.com

Public Affairs and Communications Consultancy | CLERENS

Page Load Speed

14.2 sec in total

First Response

336 ms

Resources Loaded

13.3 sec

Page Rendered

544 ms

clerens.com screenshot

About Website

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

CLERENS is a Brussels-based consultancy specialised in advocacy support, political and regulatory risk assessment, public funding, and strategic communications services.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Clerens.com page load time and found that the first response time was 336 ms and then it took 13.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

clerens.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value900 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

clerens.com

336 ms

clerens.com

458 ms

clerens.eu

692 ms

js

61 ms

style.min.css

336 ms

Our browser made a total of 209 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Clerens.com, 92% (192 requests) were made to Clerens.eu and 2% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Clerens.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 168.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Clerens.com main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 144.3 kB

  • Original 168.7 kB
  • After minification 166.6 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 144.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB

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. CLERENS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 622.1 kB
  • After minification 620.2 kB
  • After compression 607.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 261.5 kB
  • After minification 260.5 kB
  • After compression 254.2 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. Clerens.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 124 (70%)

Requests Now

176

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 176 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CLERENS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 98 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

clerens.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

clerens.com 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

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

clerens.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Clerens.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 Clerens.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

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