Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

nouvelobs.com

Le Nouvel Obs - Actualités du jour en direct

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

353 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nouvelobs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 353 ms and then it took 5.7 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

nouvelobs.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nouvelobs.com

353 ms

tempsreel.nouvelobs.com

140 ms

nobs;manifest-redirect.js

109 ms

nobs;201504-manifest.css

140 ms

nobs;201504-manifest-header.css

142 ms

Our browser made a total of 268 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nouvelobs.com, 16% (43 requests) were made to Referentiel.nouvelobs.com and 9% (23 requests) were made to Ultimedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Staticxx.facebook.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (30%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Nouvelobs.com main page is 5.0 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 231.5 kB

  • Original 271.1 kB
  • After minification 270.8 kB
  • After compression 39.6 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 231.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 67.9 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Nouvel Obs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 925.0 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 630.3 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 925.0 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 312.0 kB

  • Original 383.7 kB
  • After minification 356.1 kB
  • After compression 71.8 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. Nouvelobs.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 312.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 135 (55%)

Requests Now

244

After Optimization

109

The browser has sent 244 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Nouvel Obs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nouvelobs.com accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

nouvelobs.com 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

nouvelobs.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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