Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

franceculture.fr

France Culture – Écouter la radio en direct et podcasts gratuitement

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

169 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

738 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Franceculture.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 169 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

franceculture.fr performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,210 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

franceculture.fr

169 ms

www.franceculture.fr

260 ms

css

57 ms

css

67 ms

A.css,,_styles.min.css,,qv==v1+player,,_css,,_lecteurRf.min.css,Mcc.JhxMQBGD0h.css.pagespeed.cf.l7HS-KfUCA.css

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Franceculture.fr, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Dmp.theadex.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Www6.smartadserver.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 660.8 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

979.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Franceculture.fr main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 109.6 kB
  • After minification 109.6 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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 87.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 222.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 829.8 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. Obviously, France Culture needs image optimization as it can save up to 222.1 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 273.9 kB

  • Original 386.4 kB
  • After minification 386.3 kB
  • After compression 112.5 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 273.9 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 77.5 kB

  • Original 92.2 kB
  • After minification 92.0 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. Franceculture.fr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (40%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of France Culture. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

franceculture.fr accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

franceculture.fr 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

franceculture.fr SEO score

97

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

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