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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

au-chateau.com

au Chateau - English language guide to luxurious chateau lodging in France.

Page Load Speed

875 ms in total

First Response

103 ms

Resources Loaded

532 ms

Page Rendered

240 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Au-chateau.com page load time and found that the first response time was 103 ms and then it took 772 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

au-chateau.com performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

au-chateau.com

103 ms

au-chateau.com

176 ms

style.css

28 ms

superfish.css

66 ms

jquery-1.9.0.min.js

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Au-chateau.com, 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (182 ms) belongs to the original domain Au-chateau.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

196.2 kB

After Optimization

172.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Au-chateau.com main page is 196.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 129.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 27.0 kB
  • After minification 25.5 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 20.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 252 B

  • Original 129.9 kB
  • After minification 129.6 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. Au Chateau images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 36.6 kB
  • After minification 36.4 kB
  • After compression 35.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Au-chateau.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Au Chateau. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

au-chateau.com

au-chateau.com

103 ms

au-chateau.com

au-chateau.com

176 ms

style.css

style.css

28 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

66 ms

jquery-1.9.0.min.js

jquery-1.9.0.min.js

76 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

65 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

58 ms

css

css

20 ms

francedraw_bkgrnd.gif

francedraw_bkgrnd.gif

64 ms

banner.gif

banner.gif

75 ms

banner_UltimateLodging_800W.jpg

banner_UltimateLodging_800W.jpg

88 ms

francedrawsm2.gif

francedrawsm2.gif

61 ms

bannersm_trans.gif

bannersm_trans.gif

62 ms

CourtomerFacade.jpg

CourtomerFacade.jpg

74 ms

icons_cognacglassA.gif

icons_cognacglassA.gif

92 ms

icons_paintbrush.gif

icons_paintbrush.gif

88 ms

icons_glass.gif

icons_glass.gif

87 ms

icons_Camargue.gif

icons_Camargue.gif

99 ms

icons_chefhat.gif

icons_chefhat.gif

93 ms

icons_tango.gif

icons_tango.gif

106 ms

icons_sprout.gif

icons_sprout.gif

111 ms

icons_beret22x22.gif

icons_beret22x22.gif

112 ms

icon_helicopter.png

icon_helicopter.png

116 ms

icons_music.gif

icons_music.gif

113 ms

icons_green3.gif

icons_green3.gif

133 ms

icons_balloon.gif

icons_balloon.gif

124 ms

icons_gite.gif

icons_gite.gif

132 ms

icons_horse.gif

icons_horse.gif

134 ms

icons_spa1.gif

icons_spa1.gif

130 ms

icons_pool.jpg

icons_pool.jpg

134 ms

icons_tennis.gif

icons_tennis.gif

142 ms

icons_bride1.gif

icons_bride1.gif

160 ms

icons_wine.gif

icons_wine.gif

154 ms

icons_grapes.gif

icons_grapes.gif

153 ms

icons_pencil.gif

icons_pencil.gif

151 ms

viamichelin3.gif

viamichelin3.gif

155 ms

Qwant.jpg

Qwant.jpg

160 ms

Google.gif

Google.gif

168 ms

bn-yahoo.gif

bn-yahoo.gif

181 ms

bing_logo.jpg

bing_logo.jpg

182 ms

arrows-ffffff.png

arrows-ffffff.png

126 ms

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o-0mIpQlx3QUlC5A4PNB6Ryti20_6n1iPHjcz6L1SoM-jCpoiyD9A-9a6Vc.ttf

9 ms

Accessibility Review

au-chateau.com accessibility score

60

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

au-chateau.com best practices score

42

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

au-chateau.com SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Au-chateau.com 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 Au-chateau.com 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

au-chateau.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Au Chateau. 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: