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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

eur-lex.europa.eu

EUR-Lex — Access to European Union law — choose your language

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

555 ms

Resources Loaded

937 ms

Page Rendered

149 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eur-lex.europa.eu page load time and found that the first response time was 555 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eur-lex.europa.eu performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

41/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.401

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eur-lex.europa.eu

555 ms

eurlex.css

251 ms

eurlex-print.css

222 ms

logoflagLaw.gif

225 ms

SplashLaw.gif

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Eur-lex.europa.eu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) belongs to the original domain Eur-lex.europa.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 kB (69%)

Content Size

5.4 kB

After Optimization

1.7 kB

  • HTML

In fact, the total size of Eur-lex.europa.eu main page is 5.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 5.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 599 B, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EUR Lex Opa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

eur-lex.europa.eu

eur-lex.europa.eu

555 ms

eurlex.css

eurlex.css

251 ms

eurlex-print.css

eurlex-print.css

222 ms

logoflagLaw.gif

logoflagLaw.gif

225 ms

SplashLaw.gif

SplashLaw.gif

122 ms

Accessibility Review

eur-lex.europa.eu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

eur-lex.europa.eu best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

eur-lex.europa.eu SEO score

78

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

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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 Eur-lex.europa.eu 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 Eur-lex.europa.eu 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

eur-lex.europa.eu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of EUR Lex Opa. 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: