24/08/2026
August 24 recap: web security of French town halls on a map, fact sheets in a flash
A two-part day for the site, between a major new feature and a clear regain in speed. The big announcement of the day is the web security map of French town halls: it covers the 34,875 municipalities of the territory, drawn on an official map background updated this year, and shows for each one the official town hall website, the technology that powers it, and the associated risk level. Two ways to read it: Score mode, which colors each municipality according to the reliability of its website, and Source mode, which indicates where the information comes from. In parallel, the site has regained its liveliness: announcement, company, and person fact sheets now open in a few tenths of a second, including in the morning, when the day's data arrives and the site works behind the scenes. Visual elements are kept longer by your browser, and advertising indicators only load when you interact with the page. Concretely, reading is smoother on both mobile and desktop, and pages flow without waiting, even on modest connections. These improvements are the result of a long day of work: the map's sources were verified one by one, fake official websites were set aside, data was aligned with the official directory of municipalities, and fact sheets were restored after a series of technical errors that made them inaccessible. It is this behind-the-scenes work, invisible to the visitor, that makes today so rich: a new public page, safer data, and a faster site for everyone. The details of what changes for you are presented in the sections below.
- The web security map of French town halls is online: 34,875 municipalities, with the official website, technology, and risk level of each one.
- Two reading modes: risk level (Score) or information origin (Source).
- Announcement, company, and person fact sheets open in a few tenths of a second, even during morning updates.
- Fact sheets respond correctly again in all site languages.