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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

controltower.fr

Welcome to Dub Music shop Specialist | Vinyl - LP - CD - Control Tower Records

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Controltower.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 9.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

controltower.fr performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.199

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

controltower.fr

276 ms

3071 ms

global.css

350 ms

highdpi.css

260 ms

responsive-tables.css

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 183 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Controltower.fr, 28% (52 requests) were made to Controltowercdn2.controltower.fr and 20% (36 requests) were made to Controltowercdn3.controltower.fr. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Controltower.fr.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.9 MB (60%)

Content Size

6.6 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Controltower.fr main page is 6.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 4.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 3.8 MB

  • Original 4.2 MB
  • After minification 4.2 MB
  • After compression 348.5 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 3.8 MB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB

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. Control Tower images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 156.3 kB
  • After minification 155.7 kB
  • After compression 118.9 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 37.4 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 72.2 kB
  • After minification 71.9 kB
  • After compression 56.8 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. Controltower.fr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (28%)

Requests Now

178

After Optimization

128

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 178 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Control Tower. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

controltower.fr accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

controltower.fr best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

controltower.fr 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

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 Controltower.fr 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 Controltower.fr 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

controltower.fr

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Control Tower. 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: