Tools & Wizards About Us
epaper.businesstimes.com.sg screenshot

Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

epaper.businesstimes.com.sg

mySPH Login

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

278 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

80 ms

epaper.businesstimes.com.sg screenshot

About Website

Visit epaper.businesstimes.com.sg now to see the best up-to-date Epaper Businesstimes content for Singapore and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about epaper.businesstimes.com.sg

Visit epaper.businesstimes.com.sg

Key Findings

We analyzed Epaper.businesstimes.com.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 278 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epaper.businesstimes.com.sg performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value690 ms

43/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

jrpc.php

278 ms

btLogin.html

1150 ms

login.css

1129 ms

dck1yfu.js

193 ms

xtcore.js

1151 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Epaper.businesstimes.com.sg, 43% (3 requests) were made to Sphreg.asiaone.com and 14% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Sphreg.asiaone.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 48.0 kB (64%)

Content Size

75.6 kB

After Optimization

27.5 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Epaper.businesstimes.com.sg main page is 75.6 kB. 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 35.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 35.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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 28.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 23.7 kB
  • After compression 9.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 13.9 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 15.6 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Epaper.businesstimes.com.sg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epaper Businesstimes. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

jrpc.php

jrpc.php

278 ms

btLogin.html

btLogin.html

1150 ms

login.css

login.css

1129 ms

dck1yfu.js

dck1yfu.js

193 ms

xtcore.js

xtcore.js

1151 ms

beacon.js

beacon.js

26 ms

hit.xiti

hit.xiti

3 ms

Accessibility Review

epaper.businesstimes.com.sg accessibility score

78

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

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

epaper.businesstimes.com.sg 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

epaper.businesstimes.com.sg SEO score

82

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Epaper.businesstimes.com.sg can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Epaper.businesstimes.com.sg 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

epaper.businesstimes.com.sg

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Epaper Businesstimes. 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: