Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

geneva.ch

Page d'accueil - Ville de Genève - Site officiel

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

375 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Geneva.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 375 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

geneva.ch performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.297

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

geneva.ch

375 ms

www.geneve.ch

873 ms

css_H5w3uLjvgFgyrJx0ImMg5bvtyms2zDU7AgyeUZrImeE.css

490 ms

css_al6wyKWevhkBflfEPpFfMVxpsX1pIpqpmFOLBuZA5HA.css

881 ms

logo.svg

483 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Geneva.ch, 94% (30 requests) were made to Geneve.ch and 3% (1 request) were made to Cdn.weglot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (933 ms) relates to the external source Geneve.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (37%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Geneva.ch main page is 2.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 78.9 kB

  • Original 97.6 kB
  • After minification 82.5 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 15.1 kB, which is 15% 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 78.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Geneva images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 300.5 kB

  • Original 421.0 kB
  • After minification 421.0 kB
  • After compression 120.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 300.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 619.2 kB

  • Original 732.7 kB
  • After minification 718.1 kB
  • After compression 113.5 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. Geneva.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 619.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (21%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

19

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Geneva. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

geneva.ch accessibility score

96

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

geneva.ch 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

SEO Factors

geneva.ch SEO score

92

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 Geneva.ch 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 Geneva.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 Geneva. 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: