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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

discoverfrance.net

Discover France - French Arts, Culture, Tourism

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

560 ms

Page Rendered

363 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Discover France content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about discoverfrance.net

Welcome to France! Explore French arts, culture, history, language, literature, lodging, museums, shopping, sightseeing, wine tasting, etc. Take a tour through this fascinating and beautiful country!

Visit discoverfrance.net

Key Findings

We analyzed Discoverfrance.net page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 923 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

discoverfrance.net performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

discoverfrance.net

146 ms

DF_main_style2.css

166 ms

openwindow_jumpmenu.js

171 ms

impression-counter

12 ms

france_flag_bkgnd.gif

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Discoverfrance.net, 20% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Assoc-amazon.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (197 ms) belongs to the original domain Discoverfrance.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 26.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

123.4 kB

After Optimization

96.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Discoverfrance.net main page is 123.4 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. Images take 70.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 15.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 70.7 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. Discover France images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 27.5 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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 8.4 kB or 31% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 4.0 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 776 B

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. Discoverfrance.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (21%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Discover France. 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

discoverfrance.net

discoverfrance.net

146 ms

DF_main_style2.css

DF_main_style2.css

166 ms

openwindow_jumpmenu.js

openwindow_jumpmenu.js

171 ms

impression-counter

impression-counter

12 ms

france_flag_bkgnd.gif

france_flag_bkgnd.gif

174 ms

ga.js

ga.js

28 ms

DF_splash_2006.jpg

DF_splash_2006.jpg

197 ms

family_friendly_240x40.gif

family_friendly_240x40.gif

171 ms

webring_navbar.gif

webring_navbar.gif

171 ms

credits_copyright_c.gif

credits_copyright_c.gif

171 ms

made_with_mac.gif

made_with_mac.gif

171 ms

credits_email.gif

credits_email.gif

172 ms

impression-counter-common.js

impression-counter-common.js

42 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

50 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

26 ms

Accessibility Review

discoverfrance.net accessibility score

92

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

discoverfrance.net best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

discoverfrance.net SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Discoverfrance.net 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 Discoverfrance.net main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

discoverfrance.net

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