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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg

The Straits Times - Breaking News, Lifestyle & Multimedia News

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

9 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 9 ms and then it took 6 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

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,250 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg

9 ms

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg

63 ms

global

29 ms

gpt.js

151 ms

ads_checker.js

88 ms

Our browser made a total of 246 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg, 36% (89 requests) were made to Straitstimes.com and 27% (67 requests) were made to Static1.straitstimes.com.sg. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Tagweb.straitstimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 546.1 kB (1%)

Content Size

53.3 MB

After Optimization

52.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg main page is 53.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 51.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 278.5 kB

  • Original 333.4 kB
  • After minification 304.3 kB
  • After compression 54.9 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 278.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 51.6 MB
  • After minification 51.6 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. Brandinsider Business Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 223.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 223.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 34.7 kB

  • Original 129.9 kB
  • After minification 128.8 kB
  • After compression 95.2 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. Brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 135 (58%)

Requests Now

232

After Optimization

97

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 232 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brandinsider Business 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 89 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg accessibility score

75

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

brandinsider.businesstimes.com.sg SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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