Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

cultuurnet.be

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

291 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cultuurnet.be page load time and found that the first response time was 291 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cultuurnet.be performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cultuurnet.be

291 ms

www.cultuurnet.be

530 ms

system.base.css

155 ms

date.css

162 ms

datepicker.1.7.css

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Cultuurnet.be, 8% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (986 ms) belongs to the original domain Cultuurnet.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 322.7 kB (65%)

Content Size

494.7 kB

After Optimization

172.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Cultuurnet.be main page is 494.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 215.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 21.5 kB
  • After minification 19.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 16.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 38.2 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, Cultuurnet needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.7 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 118.5 kB

  • Original 215.4 kB
  • After minification 174.2 kB
  • After compression 96.9 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 118.5 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 168.1 kB

  • Original 199.9 kB
  • After minification 167.1 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. Cultuurnet.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (81%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cultuurnet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cultuurnet.be accessibility score

90

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

cultuurnet.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

SEO Factors

cultuurnet.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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Cultuurnet.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 Cultuurnet.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 Cultuurnet. 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: