Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

media1.ledevoir.com

Le Devoir | Nouvelles, politique, économie, culture et chroniques

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

989 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Media1.ledevoir.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

media1.ledevoir.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.1 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

media1.ledevoir.com

1169 ms

h5bp.css

33 ms

web.css

102 ms

principal_responsive.css

68 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 294 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Media1.ledevoir.com, 17% (49 requests) were made to Media2.ledevoir.com and 11% (33 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Www5.smartadserver.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 877.5 kB (43%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Media1.ledevoir.com main page is 2.0 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 820.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 140.5 kB

  • Original 173.0 kB
  • After minification 150.6 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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 22.3 kB, which is 13% 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 140.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 54.9 kB

  • Original 820.8 kB
  • After minification 765.9 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. Media 1 Le Devoir images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 467.2 kB

  • Original 769.1 kB
  • After minification 748.8 kB
  • After compression 301.9 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 467.2 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 214.9 kB

  • Original 259.7 kB
  • After minification 212.8 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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. Media1.ledevoir.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 214.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 129 (45%)

Requests Now

287

After Optimization

158

The browser has sent 287 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media 1 Le Devoir. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 79 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

media1.ledevoir.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

media1.ledevoir.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

media1.ledevoir.com 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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Media1.ledevoir.com 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 Media1.ledevoir.com 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 Media 1 Le Devoir. 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: