Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

kyodonews.net

Kyodo News+ | Japan's leading news agency.

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

912 ms

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About Website

Welcome to kyodonews.net homepage info - get ready to check Kyodo News best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about kyodonews.net

Kyodo News Plus is an online publication delivering the latest news from Japan together with those stories from around the globe in which Japan plays a key role. Centering on content provided by Kyodo...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kyodonews.net page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kyodonews.net performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.324

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kyodonews.net

140 ms

kyodonews.net

259 ms

english.kyodonews.net

1548 ms

font-awesome.min.css

35 ms

bootstrap.min.css

260 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Kyodonews.net, 33% (25 requests) were made to English.kyodonews.net and 24% (18 requests) were made to Img.kyodonews.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source English.kyodonews.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (18%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

6.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Kyodonews.net main page is 8.4 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. 80% 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 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 142.6 kB

  • Original 171.4 kB
  • After minification 144.5 kB
  • After compression 28.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 26.9 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 142.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 627.1 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 6.5 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. Kyodo News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 515.9 kB

  • Original 827.8 kB
  • After minification 820.9 kB
  • After compression 311.9 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 515.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 182.6 kB

  • Original 210.7 kB
  • After minification 160.6 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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. Kyodonews.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 182.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (53%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kyodo News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kyodonews.net accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kyodonews.net 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

SEO Factors

kyodonews.net SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kyodonews.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Kyodonews.net 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 Kyodo News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: