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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

games.straitstimes.com

The Straits Times - Breaking News, Lifestyle & Multimedia News

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Games.straitstimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 4.4 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

games.straitstimes.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,370 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.16

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

global

56 ms

gpt.js

112 ms

ads_checker.js

233 ms

betterads_head.js

79 ms

suid.min.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 198 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Games.straitstimes.com, 29% (58 requests) were made to Static1.straitstimes.com.sg and 2% (4 requests) were made to Adtag.sphdigital.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Neuron.platform.sphdigital.com.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.9 kB (1%)

Content Size

28.6 MB

After Optimization

28.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Games.straitstimes.com main page is 28.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 228.4 kB

  • Original 280.5 kB
  • After minification 251.9 kB
  • After compression 52.1 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 228.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 27.2 MB
  • After minification 27.2 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. Games Straits Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 40.6 kB

  • Original 950.0 kB
  • After minification 949.6 kB
  • After compression 909.4 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 122.8 kB
  • After minification 121.6 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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. Games.straitstimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.7 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 115 (61%)

Requests Now

190

After Optimization

75

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Games Straits 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 79 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

games.straitstimes.com accessibility score

75

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.

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

games.straitstimes.com best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

games.straitstimes.com SEO score

77

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

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 Games.straitstimes.com 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 Games.straitstimes.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

games.straitstimes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Games Straits 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: