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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

volkskrant.nl

Volkskrant - Nieuws, achtergronden en columns

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

393 ms

Resources Loaded

942 ms

Page Rendered

157 ms

volkskrant.nl screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Volkskrant content for Netherlands. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about volkskrant.nl

Het laatste nieuws met duiding van redacteuren, achtergronden, columns, opinie, wetenschap, en recensies van kunst & cultuur door de Volkskrant.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Volkskrant.nl page load time and found that the first response time was 393 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

volkskrant.nl performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.182

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.volkskrant.nl

393 ms

cookiewall-sharp.jpg

55 ms

gtm.js

18 ms

analytics.js

8 ms

uts-no-vea.min.js

415 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Volkskrant.nl, 50% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 10% (1 request) were made to Static3.persgroep.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (415 ms) relates to the external source Uts.volkskrant.nl.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

924.1 kB

After Optimization

879.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Volkskrant.nl main page is 924.1 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 848.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 17.5 kB
  • After minification 17.0 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 10.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 848.5 kB
  • After minification 848.5 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. Volkskrant images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 34.5 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (38%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Volkskrant. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.volkskrant.nl

www.volkskrant.nl

393 ms

cookiewall-sharp.jpg

cookiewall-sharp.jpg

55 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

18 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

8 ms

uts-no-vea.min.js

uts-no-vea.min.js

415 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

12 ms

collect

collect

33 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

collect

collect

23 ms

collect

collect

56 ms

Accessibility Review

volkskrant.nl accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

volkskrant.nl 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

volkskrant.nl SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Volkskrant.nl 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 Volkskrant.nl 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

volkskrant.nl

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Volkskrant. 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: