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Guillaume Martigny

Pretty much the same as

Hello Nicole,
Try to run LightHouse (embed in Chrome console) and address the issues.

The main issue I had with you site is loading time. Your images are too heavy. Try crop them to the exact size you display them and run them through tinyPng/tinyJpg. You can also use the free caching of CloudFlare.

Next thing is, you're not using HTTPS. It can be harder to achieve depending on your hosting. But today's browser warn user when entering non-secure website.

Last (but don't have to be least), you didn't have set a favicon. Recruiters bookmarking your site won't have the nice little icon reminding them what your site looks like.

Overall, good design (nitpick: not sure about some contrasts). Parallax effect is always a nice touch and I like that you don't have too much informations.

Keep on the good work ;)

The main performance throttle was you images. Properly size them and run them through TinyPNG.
Be aware that you might not see any issue with you images loading time because they're in cache (try disabling cache while you dev)

In terms of design, it's very nicely done. I personally love the colors even tho they're not accessibility compatible. The interactive piece are cute and well executed.

Nice job overall.