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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

news.theepochtimes.com

The Epoch Times - Truth & Tradition. Fact Based. Unbiased. Accurate News

Page Load Speed

13.1 sec in total

First Response

79 ms

Resources Loaded

11.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.theepochtimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 79 ms and then it took 13 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

news.theepochtimes.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,560 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.872

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value80.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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79 ms

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Our browser made a total of 186 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original News.theepochtimes.com, 39% (73 requests) were made to Img.theepochtimes.com and 13% (24 requests) were made to Theepochtimes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.1 sec) relates to the external source Img.theepochtimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 511.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.theepochtimes.com main page is 2.8 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 375.4 kB

  • Original 428.1 kB
  • After minification 421.1 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. 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 375.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 101.2 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. News The Epoch Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 138.9 kB
  • After minification 138.8 kB
  • After compression 111.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 27.5 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 65.4 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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. News.theepochtimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (40%)

Requests Now

170

After Optimization

102

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 170 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News The Epoch 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 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

news.theepochtimes.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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 progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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.

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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>).

Best Practices

news.theepochtimes.com best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

news.theepochtimes.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 News.theepochtimes.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 News.theepochtimes.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

news.theepochtimes.com

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