Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

palexpo.ch

Palexpo SA, Centre international d'expositions et de congrès à Genève

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

499 ms

palexpo.ch screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Palexpo content for Switzerland. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about palexpo.ch

Expositions, congrès, spectacles et compétitions se succèdent durant toute l’année dans les 106’000 m² de Palexpo à Genève.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Palexpo.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 300 ms and then it took 3 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

palexpo.ch performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value39.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value25,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.336

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

palexpo.ch

300 ms

www.palexpo.ch

301 ms

444 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

200 ms

css_sCyenpBQ_eKr_Enmf79c2g_Af7yjmN_iWFbbI5Rg3cg.css

199 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Palexpo.ch, 21% (20 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Palexpo.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (38%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Palexpo.ch main page is 3.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 91.9 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 101.2 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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 91.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 65.4 kB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Palexpo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 806.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 367.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 806.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 464.3 kB

  • Original 543.7 kB
  • After minification 539.0 kB
  • After compression 79.4 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. Palexpo.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 464.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (41%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Palexpo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

palexpo.ch accessibility score

92

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

palexpo.ch 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

palexpo.ch SEO score

100

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

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 Palexpo.ch 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 Palexpo.ch 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 Palexpo. 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: