Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

vives.be

Home | Hogeschool VIVES

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

308 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

612 ms

vives.be screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing VIVES content for Belgium. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about vives.be

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vives.be page load time and found that the first response time was 308 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vives.be performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value310 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.179

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vives.be

308 ms

www.vives.be

892 ms

css_rEI_5cK_B9hB4So2yZUtr5weuEV3heuAllCDE6XsIkI.css

218 ms

css_3VKPqm_g7tCM0W8M3c-ylQ0KLpcLCKeSnrFmI0EiNLE.css

299 ms

css_RnRuP1T4eHPWpyvx5GlWl3L8lJZK7onR7rHeE1rreWg.css

769 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Vives.be, 5% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (892 ms) belongs to the original domain Vives.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 378.7 kB (48%)

Content Size

791.5 kB

After Optimization

412.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Vives.be main page is 791.5 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. Images take 288.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 22.7 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 30.5 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 22.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 288.1 kB
  • After minification 284.4 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. VIVES images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 150.4 kB

  • Original 233.8 kB
  • After minification 198.8 kB
  • After compression 83.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 150.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 201.9 kB

  • Original 238.3 kB
  • After minification 237.8 kB
  • After compression 36.4 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. Vives.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 201.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (29%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VIVES. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vives.be accessibility score

94

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

vives.be best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vives.be SEO score

86

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

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 Vives.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 Vives.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 description is not detected on the main page of VIVES. 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: