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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

ibtimes.sg

International News, Analysis, Politics, Business, Technology, Entertainment - IB Times SG Edition

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

128 ms

Resources Loaded

779 ms

Page Rendered

415 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ibtimes.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 128 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ibtimes.sg performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

47/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value850 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ibtimes.sg

128 ms

www.ibtimes.sg

174 ms

3d16d9487c10010f6407f7e967108129.js

354 ms

video.php

304 ms

45a52ae9b1031a0b49e92b82cb96d0dc1afae471.js

241 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Ibtimes.sg, 63% (32 requests) were made to Data.ibtimes.sg and 8% (4 requests) were made to G.ibtimes.sg. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (470 ms) relates to the external source Data.ibtimes.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ibtimes.sg main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 624.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 131.5 kB

  • Original 175.7 kB
  • After minification 175.7 kB
  • After compression 44.2 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 131.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 624.5 kB
  • After minification 624.5 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. IB Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 379.8 kB
  • After minification 379.8 kB
  • After compression 378.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (20%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IB 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ibtimes.sg

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128 ms

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174 ms

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354 ms

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304 ms

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241 ms

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109 ms

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267 ms

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Accessibility Review

ibtimes.sg accessibility score

96

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.

Best Practices

ibtimes.sg 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

ibtimes.sg SEO score

92

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ibtimes.sg can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ibtimes.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

ibtimes.sg

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of IB Times. 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: