Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

britishcouncil.fr

British Council France | Cours et examens d'anglais

Page Load Speed

989 ms in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

656 ms

Page Rendered

157 ms

britishcouncil.fr screenshot

About Website

Visit britishcouncil.fr now to see the best up-to-date British Council content for France and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about britishcouncil.fr

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Key Findings

We analyzed Britishcouncil.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 813 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

britishcouncil.fr performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,850 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.britishcouncil.fr

176 ms

5JStz67rqrFK.js

66 ms

otSDKStub.js

38 ms

css__iYN0PnhGRITeIiRpmnTmEz4xX4gTF6dPgdte0drEfaY__XaxEcspfL8jYi5T4sjBdMIAiRr5QyTnazlO2d_X7dqU__ecyjdOJwM1rPKyMefGCzSbz2JMmVIl29ufovJPfgy-0.css

184 ms

bc-theme.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Britishcouncil.fr, 19% (7 requests) were made to Sui.britishcouncil.org and 8% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (229 ms) relates to the external source S.go-mpulse.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 136.3 kB (36%)

Content Size

375.8 kB

After Optimization

239.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Britishcouncil.fr main page is 375.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 185.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 185.8 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 53.6 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 132.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 16.5 kB
  • After minification 16.5 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. British Council images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 169.6 kB
  • After minification 168.3 kB
  • After compression 165.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.8 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Britishcouncil.fr has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (43%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of British Council. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

britishcouncil.fr accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

britishcouncil.fr 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

britishcouncil.fr SEO score

91

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

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 Britishcouncil.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 Britishcouncil.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 British Council. 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: