Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 77

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

thechinaguide.com

Private & Custom China Tours, China Travel Agency

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

714 ms

thechinaguide.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing The China Guide content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thechinaguide.com

The China Guide is a Beijing-based travel agency that customizes private tours, educational student tours, and incentive trips in China. We have more than ten years of experience crafting vacation pac...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thechinaguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thechinaguide.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.25

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thechinaguide.com

193 ms

www.thechinaguide.com

387 ms

bootstrap.min.css

71 ms

site.css

138 ms

jquery.min.js

387 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Thechinaguide.com, 25% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) belongs to the original domain Thechinaguide.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.5 kB (14%)

Content Size

830.2 kB

After Optimization

715.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Thechinaguide.com main page is 830.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 674.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 40.1 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 39.1 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.2 kB, which is 22% 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 40.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 70.3 kB

  • Original 674.5 kB
  • After minification 604.2 kB

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. The China Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 75.3 kB
  • After minification 75.3 kB
  • After compression 72.3 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 30.1 kB
  • After compression 28.9 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. Thechinaguide.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (36%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The China Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thechinaguide.com accessibility score

81

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

thechinaguide.com best practices score

77

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thechinaguide.com SEO score

82

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

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 Thechinaguide.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 Thechinaguide.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The China Guide. 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: