Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

braille.be

Brailleliga - Ligue Braille

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

284 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

87 ms

braille.be screenshot

About Website

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

Een andere kijk op het leven - Une autre façon de voir la vie

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Key Findings

We analyzed Braille.be page load time and found that the first response time was 284 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

braille.be performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

braille.be

284 ms

www.braille.be

823 ms

all.css

259 ms

modernizr.custom.js

256 ms

dc.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Braille.be, 56% (5 requests) were made to Static.braille.be and 22% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (823 ms) belongs to the original domain Braille.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.8 kB (65%)

Content Size

112.0 kB

After Optimization

39.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Braille.be main page is 112.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 73.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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 412 B, which is 11% 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 2.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 6.7 kB
  • After minification 6.7 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. Braille images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 28.5 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 63.5 kB

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. Braille.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 63.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Braille. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

braille.be accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

braille.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

braille.be SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    NL

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Braille.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Dutch language. Our system also found out that Braille.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 Braille. 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: