Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 49

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

taobao.com

taobao | 淘寶

Page Load Speed

27.9 sec in total

First Response

950 ms

Resources Loaded

26.5 sec

Page Rendered

479 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Taobao.com page load time and found that the first response time was 950 ms and then it took 27 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

taobao.com performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.8 s

55/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

taobao.com

950 ms

www.taobao.com

1613 ms

www.taobao.com

2111 ms

world.taobao.com

964 ms

world.taobao.com

2155 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Taobao.com, 34% (47 requests) were made to Img.alicdn.com and 29% (41 requests) were made to G.alicdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) relates to the external source Pass.tmall.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (36%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Taobao.com main page is 4.9 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 249.2 kB

  • Original 293.3 kB
  • After minification 262.3 kB
  • After compression 44.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 31.0 kB, which is 11% 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 249.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

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

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 991.7 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 589.6 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 991.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 460.3 kB

  • Original 585.4 kB
  • After minification 581.2 kB
  • After compression 125.1 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. Taobao.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 460.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (48%)

Requests Now

126

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 126 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Taobao. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

taobao.com accessibility score

49

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

taobao.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

taobao.com SEO score

76

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    GBK

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Taobao.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Taobao.com main page’s claimed encoding is gbk. 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 data is detected on the main page of Taobao. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: