Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

curie.fr

Institut Curie - Centre de recherche et traitement du cancer en France

Page Load Speed

56.5 sec in total

First Response

470 ms

Resources Loaded

32.7 sec

Page Rendered

23.3 sec

curie.fr screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Curie content for France. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about curie.fr

L'Institut Curie lutte contre le cancer via son centre hospitalier de pointe en cancérologie, son centre européen de recherche en cancérologie et son centre de formation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Curie.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 470 ms and then it took 56 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

curie.fr performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.239

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

curie.fr

470 ms

curie.fr

1621 ms

analytics.js

892 ms

gtm.js

1912 ms

normalize.css

679 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Curie.fr, 8% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.9 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (12%)

Content Size

12.0 MB

After Optimization

10.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Curie.fr main page is 12.0 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 10.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 49.8 kB

  • Original 58.8 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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 14.3 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 49.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 448.3 kB

  • Original 10.7 MB
  • After minification 10.3 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. Curie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 485.4 kB

  • Original 680.5 kB
  • After minification 534.0 kB
  • After compression 195.1 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 485.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 433.7 kB

  • Original 499.9 kB
  • After minification 438.8 kB
  • After compression 66.2 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. Curie.fr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 433.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (71%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Curie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 56 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

curie.fr accessibility score

92

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.

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

Best Practices

curie.fr best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

curie.fr 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

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Curie.fr can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Curie.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

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