Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

lesoir.be

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Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

139 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lesoir.be page load time and found that the first response time was 139 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lesoir.be performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lesoir.be

139 ms

css_64a7ea6f6fc3cf69b3b175dd0087592d_0.css

16 ms

css_97516ec0d8e54c1c89fe81e2604b22f4_22.css

22 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

40 ms

js_49bc9ccc5fa602be07d19649551bf739_1.js

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 276 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Lesoir.be, 36% (99 requests) were made to Ls.rosselcdn.net and 6% (16 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Studioweb.lesoir.be.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.4 MB (45%)

Content Size

9.9 MB

After Optimization

5.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Lesoir.be main page is 9.9 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 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 237.1 kB

  • Original 305.9 kB
  • After minification 295.8 kB
  • After compression 68.8 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 237.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 291.7 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Le Soir images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.4 MB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.1 MB
  • After compression 970.2 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 2.4 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 345.7 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. Lesoir.be needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (38%)

Requests Now

256

After Optimization

160

The browser has sent 256 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Le Soir. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lesoir.be accessibility score

90

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

lesoir.be 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lesoir.be SEO score

85

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lesoir.be can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French 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 Lesoir.be 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 Le Soir. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: