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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

southcn.com

南方网_广东权威融媒平台

Page Load Speed

11.7 sec in total

First Response

698 ms

Resources Loaded

10.3 sec

Page Rendered

691 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southcn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 698 ms and then it took 11 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

southcn.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value790 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.286

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southcn.com

698 ms

southcn.com

883 ms

www.southcn.com

1521 ms

cms-site-base.css

1400 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

1633 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Southcn.com, 53% (73 requests) were made to Nfcms-mainsiteoss.southcn.com and 35% (48 requests) were made to Nfassetoss.southcn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) relates to the external source Nfassetoss.southcn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 919.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

6.5 MB

After Optimization

5.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southcn.com main page is 6.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 309.3 kB

  • Original 354.4 kB
  • After minification 301.5 kB
  • After compression 45.1 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 52.9 kB, which is 15% 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 309.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 593.5 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.1 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. Southcn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 477.6 kB
  • After minification 477.6 kB
  • After compression 463.8 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. Southcn.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (19%)

Requests Now

135

After Optimization

109

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 135 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southcn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southcn.com accessibility score

72

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

southcn.com best practices score

75

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

southcn.com SEO score

81

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

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southcn.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Chinese is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Southcn.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 Southcn. 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: