Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

france24.tv

France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

401 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

704 ms

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About Website

Welcome to france24.tv homepage info - get ready to check France 24 best content right away, or after learning these important things about france24.tv

Breaking news and world news from France 24 on Business, Sports, Culture. Video news. News from the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East, America

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Key Findings

We analyzed France24.tv page load time and found that the first response time was 401 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

france24.tv performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

france24.tv

401 ms

115 ms

main.css

22 ms

hacks.js

17 ms

modernizr.js

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 189 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original France24.tv, 31% (59 requests) were made to France24.com and 28% (53 requests) were made to Scd.france24.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Fr.sitestat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 889.7 kB (31%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of France24.tv main page is 2.9 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 235.1 kB

  • Original 264.3 kB
  • After minification 165.2 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 99.1 kB, which is 37% 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 235.1 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 53.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. France 24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 441.6 kB

  • Original 625.3 kB
  • After minification 546.8 kB
  • After compression 183.7 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 441.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 159.8 kB

  • Original 191.7 kB
  • After minification 189.6 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. France24.tv needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (46%)

Requests Now

177

After Optimization

96

The browser has sent 177 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of France 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

france24.tv accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

france24.tv 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

france24.tv SEO score

100

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 uses 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 France24.tv 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 France24.tv 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 data is detected on the main page of France 24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: