Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

startit.be

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Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

490 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startit.be page load time and found that the first response time was 490 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

startit.be performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

startit.be

490 ms

pkj8pkw.js

227 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

166 ms

7766c62f946b24e3a8e1eddabb731448.css

253 ms

4fc535b19e6316c7e16a24f25c684173.css

262 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Startit.be, 23% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Startit.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 860.9 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

688.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Startit.be main page is 1.5 MB. 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. Javascripts take 739.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 5.5 kB, which is 24% 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 17.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 110.2 kB

  • Original 598.3 kB
  • After minification 488.1 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. Obviously, Start It needs image optimization as it can save up to 110.2 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 586.2 kB

  • Original 739.8 kB
  • After minification 478.2 kB
  • After compression 153.7 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 586.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 147.1 kB

  • Original 188.5 kB
  • After minification 188.2 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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. Startit.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 147.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (25%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Start It. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

startit.be accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Best Practices

startit.be best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

startit.be SEO score

83

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Startit.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Startit.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 data is detected on the main page of Start It. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: