Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

liberation.fr

Libération - Actualité en direct, infos en France et dans le monde

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

184 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

liberation.fr screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Liberation.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 184 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

liberation.fr performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,700 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

liberation.fr

184 ms

www.liberation.fr

256 ms

lux.js

34 ms

polyfill.min.js

896 ms

react.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Liberation.fr, 38% (9 requests) were made to Statics.liberation.fr and 4% (1 request) were made to Cdn.speedcurve.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) relates to the external source Polyfill.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.6 MB (81%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Liberation.fr main page is 6.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 5.6 MB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 6.8 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 5.6 MB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 838 B

  • Original 71.8 kB
  • After minification 71.0 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. Liberation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 7.6 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 168 B

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. Liberation.fr has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (33%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Liberation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

liberation.fr accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

liberation.fr SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Liberation.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 Liberation.fr main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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