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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

bangkokpost.net

Bangkok Post - The world’s window on Thailand | Breaking news, Thailand news, Latest news, World news

Page Load Speed

15.5 sec in total

First Response

951 ms

Resources Loaded

12.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bangkokpost.net page load time and found that the first response time was 951 ms and then it took 14.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bangkokpost.net performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.27

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bangkokpost.net

951 ms

www.bangkokpost.com

2443 ms

gtm.js

104 ms

adsbygoogle.js

178 ms

jquery.min.js

1862 ms

Our browser made a total of 203 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bangkokpost.net, 41% (84 requests) were made to Static.bangkokpost.com and 7% (15 requests) were made to Images.taboola.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) relates to the external source Static.bangkokpost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 479.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bangkokpost.net main page is 3.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 373.4 kB

  • Original 443.8 kB
  • After minification 414.1 kB
  • After compression 70.4 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. 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 373.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 MB

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. Bangkok Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 262.9 kB
  • After minification 262.7 kB
  • After compression 241.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 124.1 kB
  • After minification 124.1 kB
  • After compression 90.7 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. Bangkokpost.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.4 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (49%)

Requests Now

184

After Optimization

93

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 184 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bangkok Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bangkokpost.net accessibility score

70

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bangkokpost.net best practices score

58

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

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bangkokpost.net SEO score

84

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Bangkokpost.net 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 Bangkokpost.net 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 Bangkok Post. 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: