Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

visafrance.co.uk

Visa France - French Schengen Visa, Application Form, Biometric Visa Appointment, TLS Centre

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

619 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

468 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Visafrance.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 619 ms and then it took 2.6 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

visafrance.co.uk performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,960 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visafrance.co.uk

619 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

178 ms

css

23 ms

style.css

278 ms

jquery.js

473 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Visafrance.co.uk, 12% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 12% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (985 ms) relates to the external source Visagoa.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.0 kB (29%)

Content Size

713.4 kB

After Optimization

507.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Visafrance.co.uk main page is 713.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 444.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 18.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 444.7 kB
  • After minification 404.1 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. Visa France images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 84.6 kB

  • Original 166.9 kB
  • After minification 166.2 kB
  • After compression 82.3 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 84.6 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Visafrance.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 62.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (44%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Visa 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

visafrance.co.uk accessibility score

75

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

visafrance.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

visafrance.co.uk SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Visafrance.co.uk 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 Visafrance.co.uk 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 Visa 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: