Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

english.news.cn

Xinhua – China, World, Business, Sports, Photos and Video | English.news.cn

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

964 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

733 ms

english.news.cn screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed English.news.cn page load time and found that the first response time was 964 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

english.news.cn performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.198

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

english.news.cn

964 ms

swiper.min.css

554 ms

home.css

281 ms

jquery.min.js

802 ms

xhome.js

854 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original English.news.cn, 4% (3 requests) were made to Lib.news.cn and 3% (2 requests) were made to Imgs.news.cn. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain English.news.cn.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

6.0 MB

In fact, the total size of English.news.cn main page is 6.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 82.0 kB
  • After minification 81.3 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 62.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 106.5 kB

  • Original 5.9 MB
  • After minification 5.8 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. English News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 200.0 kB
  • After minification 200.0 kB
  • After compression 198.8 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.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 464 B

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 15.9 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. English.news.cn has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (9%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of English 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

english.news.cn accessibility score

59

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

english.news.cn 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

english.news.cn SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 English.news.cn 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 English.news.cn 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 English News. 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: