Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

24heures.ch

24 heures | l’actualité du canton de Vaud, de la Suisse et du monde

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

253 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

24heures.ch screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed 24heures.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 253 ms and then it took 8.1 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

24heures.ch performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

52/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,620 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

24heures.ch

253 ms

www.24heures.ch

367 ms

idangerous.swiper.css

28 ms

sprites.css

28 ms

desktop.css

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 413 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original 24heures.ch, 35% (144 requests) were made to Files.newsnetz.ch and 4% (18 requests) were made to S2.adform.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Files.newsnetz.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.8 MB (23%)

Content Size

16.8 MB

After Optimization

13.0 MB

In fact, the total size of 24heures.ch main page is 16.8 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. 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 11.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 192.7 kB

  • Original 235.0 kB
  • After minification 183.6 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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 51.3 kB, which is 22% 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 192.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 138.2 kB

  • Original 11.7 MB
  • After minification 11.5 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. 24 Heures images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 3.0 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 553.4 kB

  • Original 826.2 kB
  • After minification 723.3 kB
  • After compression 272.8 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. 24heures.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 553.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 234 (63%)

Requests Now

372

After Optimization

138

The browser has sent 372 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 24 Heures. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 131 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 55 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

24heures.ch accessibility score

85

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

24heures.ch best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

24heures.ch 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 24heures.ch can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that French is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that 24heures.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 24 Heures. 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: