Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

lapresse.com

LaPresse.ca | Actualités et Infos au Québec et dans le monde

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

632 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing La Presse content for Canada. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about lapresse.com

Le site d'information francophone le plus complet en Amérique du Nord: Actualités régionales, provinciales, nationales et internationales.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lapresse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 5.1 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

lapresse.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.457

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lapresse.com

101 ms

www.lapresse.ca

163 ms

accueil.css

35 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

60 ms

nav.js

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Lapresse.com, 38% (53 requests) were made to Images.lpcdn.ca and 22% (31 requests) were made to Static.lpcdn.ca. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Sb.freeskreen.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 696.3 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

962.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Lapresse.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 661.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 159.0 kB

  • Original 192.6 kB
  • After minification 156.7 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 35.9 kB, which is 19% 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 159.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 661.9 kB
  • After minification 618.8 kB

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. La Presse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 322.2 kB

  • Original 550.3 kB
  • After minification 506.9 kB
  • After compression 228.1 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 322.2 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 172.0 kB

  • Original 254.4 kB
  • After minification 210.4 kB
  • After compression 82.4 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. Lapresse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (34%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

84

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of La Presse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

lapresse.com accessibility score

73

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

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

lapresse.com best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

lapresse.com SEO score

98

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

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 Lapresse.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 Lapresse.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 La Presse. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: