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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

rfi.fr

RFI - All the news from France, Europe, Africa and the rest of the world.

Page Load Speed

586 ms in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

393 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

Visit rfi.fr now to see the best up-to-date RFI content for China and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rfi.fr

Follow any political information, cultural, sporting and live streaming on RFI. The latest information, news and events around the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rfi.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 393 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rfi.fr performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

81/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rfi.fr

193 ms

www.rfi.fr

61 ms

404.js

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Rfi.fr, 33% (1 request) were made to Tms.fmm.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (193 ms) belongs to the original domain Rfi.fr.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 MB (52%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rfi.fr main page is 7.8 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 14.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 220.2 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. RFI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 728.1 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 2.0 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 396.8 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. Rfi.fr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RFI. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

rfi.fr

rfi.fr

193 ms

www.rfi.fr

www.rfi.fr

61 ms

404.js

404.js

139 ms

Accessibility Review

rfi.fr accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

rfi.fr 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

rfi.fr SEO score

100

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rfi.fr can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed French language. Our system also found out that Rfi.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

rfi.fr

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