The state of agency websites in France
Dr Urls research · the France edition of our live study · figures computed live, newest audit 21 October 2026
We ran the audit Dr Urls runs for its customers on the home pages of 1,229 web agencies, studios and freelancers in France. These are the results, recomputed every time this page loads.
Key findings
- The median agency home page in France scores 59/100, 2 points above the median across all 20 countries we audited (57).
- 84% score below 70, a C+ or worse on the scale we grade every site with (88% overall).
- Only 7 of 1,229 (under 1%) reach an A (85 or more).
- The median home page has 32 issues our audit flags.
How the grades fall
- A+0% · 1
- A0% · 6
- B+4% · 44
- B12% · 151
- C+33% · 408
- C34% · 418
- D15% · 185
- F1% · 16
By speciality in France
By what each business says it does on its own site; only groups of at least 40. One business can count in several rows.
| Group | Sites | Median score | Below 70 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEO agencies | 142 | 65 | 70% |
| Accessibility experts | 96 | 62 | 81% |
| E-commerce agencies | 115 | 62 | 78% |
| WordPress agencies | 383 | 62 | 77% |
The best-scored agency websites in France
By the score of their own home page, from our audit. A score measures the site, not the quality of the agency's work for clients.
- 1TransactsParis96
- 2YMHB webLyon87
- 3Agence Web Tsuki Dev - Expert Wordpress, Symfony, Prestashop & SEOLyon86
- 4MRCOMToulouse86
- 5Novatis AgencyParis86
- 6Adam JankowskiLille85
- 7Agence DebordParis85
- 8IMPAKTE Digital - Création de site internetBordeaux84
- 9Agence WordPress Lille - WordesignLille83
- 10AMBAMarseille83
The most common problems
- Content-Language HTTP header missing: 97% of sites
- Twitter site handle meta tag missing: 83% of sites
- Permissions-Policy header missing: 81% of sites
- Content-Security-Policy header missing: 78% of sites
- Referrer-Policy header missing: 73% of sites
- Time to First Byte (TTFB) is slow: 71% of sites
- Images missing responsive srcset: 70% of sites
- External resources without Subresource Integrity: 70% of sites
- Missing preconnect hints for critical origins: 68% of sites
- Page vulnerable to clickjacking: 67% of sites
- Scripts without async or defer: 67% of sites
- Excessive inline CSS: 66% of sites
How we measured
The same method as the main study: one home page per business, fetched once by our crawler and run through the audit Dr Urls runs for customers. This edition keeps only the agencies located in France. Audits taken between 27 August 2026 and 21 October 2026.