Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

international.sciences-po.fr

Accueil | Sciences Po International

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

323 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

234 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed International.sciences-po.fr page load time and found that the first response time was 323 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

international.sciences-po.fr performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.497

16/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

international.sciences-po.fr

323 ms

international

245 ms

294 ms

node.css

162 ms

defaults.css

160 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original International.sciences-po.fr, 93% (71 requests) were made to Sciencespo.fr and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (700 ms) relates to the external source Sciencespo.fr.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 898.8 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

596.5 kB

In fact, the total size of International.sciences-po.fr main page is 1.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 770.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 218.3 kB

  • Original 256.0 kB
  • After minification 253.3 kB
  • After compression 37.7 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. 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 218.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 307.1 kB

  • Original 770.5 kB
  • After minification 463.4 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. Obviously, International Sciences Po needs image optimization as it can save up to 307.1 kB or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 264.7 kB

  • Original 337.3 kB
  • After minification 232.8 kB
  • After compression 72.6 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 264.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 108.7 kB

  • Original 131.6 kB
  • After minification 84.5 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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. International.sciences-po.fr needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (70%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of International Sciences Po. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

international.sciences-po.fr accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

international.sciences-po.fr best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

international.sciences-po.fr SEO score

71

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    FR

  • Language Claimed

    FR

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise International.sciences-po.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 International.sciences-po.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 International Sciences Po. 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: