Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

airfrance.us

Airline tickets: cheap flights to France & worldwide | Air France USA

Page Load Speed

57.7 sec in total

First Response

430 ms

Resources Loaded

53.1 sec

Page Rendered

4.2 sec

airfrance.us screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Air France content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about airfrance.us

Reserve your international flights among more than 500 Air France destinations worldwide. Find offers from Air France USA and flight schedules.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Airfrance.us page load time and found that the first response time was 430 ms and then it took 57.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

airfrance.us performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

airfrance.us

430 ms

www.airfrance.us

1724 ms

5889590655.js

1678 ms

hp.css

6882 ms

af_browser_comp.js

6444 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Airfrance.us, 20% (20 requests) were made to Objects.airfrance.com and 13% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.tagcommander.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.5 sec) relates to the external source Statse.webtrendslive.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.9 MB (50%)

Content Size

7.7 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Airfrance.us main page is 7.7 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. Javascripts take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 52.1 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 39.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Air France images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB
  • After compression 778.2 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 2.0 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 542.7 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. Airfrance.us needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (71%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Air France. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

airfrance.us accessibility score

91

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 progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

airfrance.us 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

airfrance.us SEO score

91

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Airfrance.us can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Airfrance.us main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Air France. 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: