Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

sudouest.fr

Sud Ouest : actualités du jour et info locale en continu

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

185 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Retrouvez l'actualité du Sud Ouest en direct et les informations locales et internationales : faits divers, politique, économie, sport, photos, info locale et vidéos.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sudouest.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 185 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sudouest.fr performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

78/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value17,070 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sudouest.fr

185 ms

www.sudouest.fr

301 ms

main.css

255 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

181 ms

modernizr.js

179 ms

Our browser made a total of 291 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Sudouest.fr, 19% (55 requests) were made to Assets.sudouest.fr and 15% (45 requests) were made to Images.sudouest.fr. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (946 ms) relates to the external source Images.sudouest.fr.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (36%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sudouest.fr main page is 3.4 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. 80% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 186.3 kB

  • Original 224.8 kB
  • After minification 204.6 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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 186.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 38.8 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Sud Ouest images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 777.6 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 365.6 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 777.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 199.0 kB

  • Original 235.9 kB
  • After minification 233.8 kB
  • After compression 36.8 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. Sudouest.fr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 199.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 157 (55%)

Requests Now

284

After Optimization

127

The browser has sent 284 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sud Ouest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 106 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sudouest.fr accessibility score

79

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

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

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.

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

sudouest.fr best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sudouest.fr 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 Sudouest.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 Sudouest.fr 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 Sud Ouest. 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: