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epochtimes.com.tw

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Page Load Speed

12.2 sec in total

First Response

879 ms

Resources Loaded

10 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

epochtimes.com.tw screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epochtimes.com.tw page load time and found that the first response time was 879 ms and then it took 11.3 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

epochtimes.com.tw performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

epochtimes.com.tw

879 ms

www.epochtimes.com.tw

1062 ms

style.css

1072 ms

min.css

639 ms

css.css

669 ms

Our browser made a total of 192 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Epochtimes.com.tw, 34% (65 requests) were made to Img.epochtimes.com.tw and 8% (15 requests) were made to Ssp.tenmax.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) relates to the external source Img.epochtimes.com.tw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Epochtimes.com.tw 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. 75% 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 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 286.0 kB

  • Original 343.4 kB
  • After minification 316.9 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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 286.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 258.3 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Epochtimes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 479.0 kB

  • Original 691.6 kB
  • After minification 635.1 kB
  • After compression 212.6 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 479.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 688.6 kB

  • Original 787.7 kB
  • After minification 751.4 kB
  • After compression 99.1 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.com.tw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 688.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 70 (38%)

Requests Now

183

After Optimization

113

The browser has sent 183 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epochtimes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

epochtimes.com.tw SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    JA

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Epochtimes.com.tw can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Japanese is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Epochtimes.com.tw 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 Epochtimes. 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: