Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

nst.com.my

New Straits Times | NST Online: Latest Malaysia & World News

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

495 ms

nst.com.my screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nst.com.my page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nst.com.my performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value23,780 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.246

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.nst.com.my

1325 ms

var=lotauds

8 ms

css__urZIRUANgzhMD1jqq0WW3YhtiNLY0WoKm-K73oJfQQ.css

97 ms

css_Vudsp5GwlrGbEQHGQa7J7Esb9gmWDjDCxniHWwVSAKE.css

95 ms

css_XiZPtaxZ-aFgFBLIEmePOkGw5bel_ZWYAdZwDYsBNyI.css

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Nst.com.my, 35% (62 requests) were made to Assets.nst.com.my and 10% (18 requests) were made to Ads.pubmatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Nst.com.my.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (32%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Nst.com.my main page is 3.7 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 205.6 kB

  • Original 256.8 kB
  • After minification 249.1 kB
  • After compression 51.2 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 205.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 189.6 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. NST images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 434.2 kB

  • Original 661.2 kB
  • After minification 641.6 kB
  • After compression 227.0 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 434.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 360.2 kB

  • Original 432.1 kB
  • After minification 420.7 kB
  • After compression 71.9 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. Nst.com.my needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 360.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (39%)

Requests Now

161

After Optimization

98

The browser has sent 161 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NST. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

nst.com.my accessibility score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

nst.com.my 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

nst.com.my SEO score

81

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nst.com.my 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 Nst.com.my 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 NST. 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: