Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

techpulse.be

TechPulse - Elke dag de vinger aan de pols van de technologiewereld

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

560 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

553 ms

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About Website

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TechPulse houdt de vinger aan de pols van de technologiewereld. De website kijkt voorbij het nieuws van de dag, en brengt je achtergrond en analyse van de ontwikkelingen in IT, technologie, mobiliteit...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techpulse.be page load time and found that the first response time was 560 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

techpulse.be performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,840 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

techpulse.be

560 ms

48ef316b783e70d56fde0edb1100f68e.css

469 ms

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2 ms

jquery.min.js

397 ms

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2 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Techpulse.be, 71% (70 requests) were made to Cdn.techpulse.be and 21% (21 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.techpulse.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 203.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

618.2 kB

After Optimization

414.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Techpulse.be main page is 618.2 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 239.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 202.8 kB

  • Original 239.2 kB
  • After minification 238.5 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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 202.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 20.5 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. Tech Pulse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 516 B

  • Original 236.8 kB
  • After minification 236.8 kB
  • After compression 236.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 121.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (6%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tech Pulse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

techpulse.be accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

techpulse.be 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

techpulse.be SEO score

91

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 Techpulse.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 Techpulse.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 Tech Pulse. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: