Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

chemistry.umicore.com

A global materials technology and recycling group | Umicore

Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

9.6 sec

Page Rendered

448 ms

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About Website

Visit chemistry.umicore.com now to see the best up-to-date Chemistry Umicore content for Belgium and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about chemistry.umicore.com

Umicore is a leading circular materials technology company with an extensive expertise in the fields of material science, chemistry and metallurgy.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chemistry.umicore.com page load time and found that the first response time was 201 ms and then it took 10.1 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

chemistry.umicore.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.344

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pmc.umicore.com

201 ms

7568 ms

main.css

302 ms

mcq6gun.css

102 ms

jquery.min.js

328 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Chemistry.umicore.com, 20% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.6 sec) relates to the external source Pmc.umicore.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 185.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

584.1 kB

After Optimization

399.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Chemistry.umicore.com main page is 584.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 319.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 183.1 kB

  • Original 205.9 kB
  • After minification 171.3 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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 34.6 kB, which is 17% 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 183.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 24 B

  • Original 319.7 kB
  • After minification 319.7 kB
  • After compression 319.7 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 1.8 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 58.5 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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. Chemistry.umicore.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (31%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chemistry Umicore. 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

chemistry.umicore.com accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

chemistry.umicore.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

chemistry.umicore.com SEO score

88

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chemistry.umicore.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 Chemistry.umicore.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 Chemistry Umicore. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: