Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

nic.brussels

Registry for .be, .brussels and .vlaanderen | DNS Belgium

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

508 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

164 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nic.brussels page load time and found that the first response time was 508 ms and then it took 3.5 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

nic.brussels performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

37/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,990 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nic.brussels

508 ms

dnsbelgium.be

625 ms

www.dnsbelgium.be

331 ms

global.57544829.chunk.css

90 ms

js_SQvZeknnzOtuWdeKjfF02XlX0CmyCHQHjeHOgkdxy-U.js

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nic.brussels, 92% (11 requests) were made to Dnsbelgium.be. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (673 ms) relates to the external source Dnsbelgium.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

44.5 kB

After Optimization

37.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Nic.brussels main page is 44.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 22.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 868 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 5.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 212 B

  • Original 22.8 kB
  • After minification 22.8 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 13.5 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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. Nic.brussels has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (67%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nic.brussels accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

nic.brussels best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

nic.brussels SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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