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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 41

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

epochtimes.org.au

Largest Chinese Newspaper in Australia - Epoch Times Newspaper

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

537 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

366 ms

About Website

Visit epochtimes.org.au now to see the best up-to-date Epoch Times content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about epochtimes.org.au

Australia Epoch Times Newspaper is the Largest Chinese Newspaper in Australia and most popular Chinese newspaper in Sydney and Australia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epochtimes.org.au page load time and found that the first response time was 537 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epochtimes.org.au performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epochtimes.org.au

537 ms

epochtimes.org.au

865 ms

gtm.js

58 ms

js

102 ms

grid.css

213 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Epochtimes.org.au, 9% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Epochtimes.org.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 605.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Epochtimes.org.au main page is 3.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 29.4 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 9.2 kB, which is 31% 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 23.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 471.1 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Obviously, Epoch Times needs image optimization as it can save up to 471.1 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 346.6 kB
  • After minification 326.1 kB
  • After compression 259.5 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 87.2 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 77.3 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. Epochtimes.org.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.6 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (67%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epoch Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

epochtimes.org.au accessibility score

41

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

<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

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

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

epochtimes.org.au 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

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

epochtimes.org.au SEO score

62

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

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 Epochtimes.org.au 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 Epochtimes.org.au 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 Epoch Times. 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: