Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sportschosun.com

SportsChosun

Page Load Speed

13.4 sec in total

First Response

808 ms

Resources Loaded

11.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

sportschosun.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sports Chosun content for South Korea. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sportschosun.com

Since our founding in 1990, we have established ourselves as Korea's premier source for entertainment and sports news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportschosun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 808 ms and then it took 12.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sportschosun.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sportschosun.com

808 ms

sportschosun.com

795 ms

sports.chosun.com

1314 ms

Mobile_Check_v01.js

557 ms

css2

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 210 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sportschosun.com, 47% (99 requests) were made to Sports.chosun.com and 10% (20 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) relates to the external source Sports.chosun.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (10%)

Content Size

12.1 MB

After Optimization

10.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Sportschosun.com main page is 12.1 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 10.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 135.8 kB

  • Original 162.4 kB
  • After minification 125.1 kB
  • After compression 26.6 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 37.3 kB, which is 23% 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 135.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 489.9 kB

  • Original 10.4 MB
  • After minification 9.9 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. Sports Chosun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 362.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 848.6 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 362.9 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 270.9 kB

  • Original 318.7 kB
  • After minification 292.4 kB
  • After compression 47.8 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. Sportschosun.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 270.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (38%)

Requests Now

196

After Optimization

121

The browser has sent 196 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sports Chosun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sportschosun.com accessibility score

52

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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

sportschosun.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sportschosun.com SEO score

92

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

    KO

  • Language Claimed

    KR

  • Encoding

    EUC-KR

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sportschosun.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Korean is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Sportschosun.com main page’s claimed encoding is euc-kr. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sports Chosun. 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: