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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

koreaherald.com

The Korea Herald

Page Load Speed

15.3 sec in total

First Response

973 ms

Resources Loaded

13.4 sec

Page Rendered

974 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Korea Herald content for South Korea. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about koreaherald.com

The Korea Herald is South Korea’s largest English-language daily and the country’s sole member of the Asia News Network (ANN).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Koreaherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 973 ms and then it took 14.3 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

koreaherald.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value73.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

koreaherald.com

973 ms

www.koreaherald.com

2329 ms

swiper.min.css

1192 ms

swiper.min.js

1629 ms

reset.css

1046 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Koreaherald.com, 51% (57 requests) were made to Res.heraldm.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.7 sec) relates to the external source Res.heraldm.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (17%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Koreaherald.com main page is 5.9 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 163.9 kB

  • Original 240.6 kB
  • After minification 207.4 kB
  • After compression 76.7 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 33.2 kB, which is 14% 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 163.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 272.3 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Korea Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 427.5 kB

  • Original 681.0 kB
  • After minification 677.2 kB
  • After compression 253.5 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 427.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 153.1 kB

  • Original 178.0 kB
  • After minification 167.7 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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. Koreaherald.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (22%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

77

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Korea Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

koreaherald.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

koreaherald.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

koreaherald.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Koreaherald.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 Koreaherald.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 data is detected on the main page of Korea Herald. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: