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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

scmp.com

Breaking China, Asia, HK News, Opinions and Insights | South China Morning Post

Page Load Speed

20.4 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

19.3 sec

scmp.com screenshot

About Website

Visit scmp.com now to see the best up-to-date Scmp content for Hong Kong and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about scmp.com

News, opinions, infographics and videos on China issues: geopolitics, diplomacy, economy, technology and lifestyle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scmp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 20.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scmp.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value55.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

scmp.com

50 ms

www.scmp.com

115 ms

css

64 ms

icon

77 ms

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69 ms

Our browser made a total of 98 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Scmp.com, 73% (72 requests) were made to Assets-v2.i-scmp.com and 15% (15 requests) were made to Cdn.i-scmp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (840 ms) relates to the external source Img.i-scmp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (11%)

Content Size

18.2 MB

After Optimization

16.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Scmp.com main page is 18.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 297.3 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 2.0 MB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 14.6 MB
  • After minification 14.6 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. Scmp images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 788 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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

-2%

Potential reduce by 121 B

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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. Scmp.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 73 (77%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scmp. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

scmp.com accessibility score

69

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

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

scmp.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scmp.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scmp.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 Scmp.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

scmp.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Scmp. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: