Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

298 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howtoliveinchina.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 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

howtoliveinchina.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howtoliveinchina.com

1286 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

93 ms

base.css

156 ms

thrive_flat.css

414 ms

theme.css

179 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Howtoliveinchina.com, 15% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Howtoliveinchina.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Howtoliveinchina.com main page is 1.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 897.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 93.1 kB

  • Original 115.8 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. 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 93.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 46.3 kB

  • Original 897.7 kB
  • After minification 851.4 kB

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. Howtoliveinchina images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 20.1 kB

  • Original 233.3 kB
  • After minification 233.3 kB
  • After compression 213.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 189.3 kB
  • After minification 189.3 kB
  • After compression 188.2 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. Howtoliveinchina.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (81%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howtoliveinchina. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howtoliveinchina.com accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

howtoliveinchina.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

howtoliveinchina.com SEO score

93

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Howtoliveinchina.com 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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Howtoliveinchina.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 Howtoliveinchina. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: