Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

ipsnews.be

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Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

185 ms

ipsnews.be screenshot

About Website

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MO.be, de site van MO*magazine en nieuwsagentschap IPS, maakt met nieuws, analyses, opinies en blogs de internationale actualiteit en de globalisering begrijpbaar.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ipsnews.be page load time and found that the first response time was 326 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ipsnews.be performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ipsnews.be

326 ms

www.ipsnews.be

269 ms

css_250c0eeea0833f9940a5d91ea9d26e0e.css

421 ms

js_7320e599be349d7b173224647c017a66.js

587 ms

style-mo_ips.css

170 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Ipsnews.be, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Mo.be. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ipsnews.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 256.0 kB (57%)

Content Size

445.8 kB

After Optimization

189.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ipsnews.be main page is 445.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 285.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 30.9 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 22.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 142.0 kB

  • Original 285.7 kB
  • After minification 143.8 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, Ipsnews needs image optimization as it can save up to 142.0 kB or 50% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 18.9 kB
  • After minification 18.0 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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

-81%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 110.3 kB
  • After minification 105.5 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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. Ipsnews.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (45%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ipsnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ipsnews.be accessibility score

76

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

ipsnews.be best practices score

67

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

ipsnews.be SEO score

82

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 Ipsnews.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 Ipsnews.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

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