Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

asiatoday.com

ASIA TODAY | News & Events

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

799 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Asiatoday.com page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 2.5 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

asiatoday.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,430 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

asiatoday.com

159 ms

css_69843314c7c4ad7e0782835263b6ae1c.css

84 ms

buttons.js

7 ms

serve.php

218 ms

serve.php

202 ms

Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (120 requests) were addressed to the original Asiatoday.com, 6% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (7 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (690 ms) belongs to the original domain Asiatoday.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 364.4 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

971.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Asiatoday.com main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 992.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 113.5 kB

  • Original 129.9 kB
  • After minification 104.5 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 25.4 kB, which is 20% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 113.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 98.7 kB

  • Original 992.2 kB
  • After minification 893.5 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. ASIA TODAY images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 114.4 kB

  • Original 165.9 kB
  • After minification 165.8 kB
  • After compression 51.4 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 114.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 47.5 kB
  • After minification 44.5 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. Asiatoday.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (25%)

Requests Now

153

After Optimization

115

The browser has sent 153 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ASIA TODAY. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

asiatoday.com accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

asiatoday.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

asiatoday.com SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Asiatoday.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Asiatoday.com 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 ASIA TODAY. 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: