Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

thestandard.com.hk

Breaking News, HK & World News, Editorial | The Standard 英文虎報

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

494 ms

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

504 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thestandard.com.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 494 ms and then it took 10.2 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

thestandard.com.hk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thestandard.com.hk

494 ms

thestandard.com.hk

909 ms

www.thestandard.com.hk

467 ms

www.thestandard.com.hk

6503 ms

gtm.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (113 requests) were addressed to the original Thestandard.com.hk, 4% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Thestandard.com.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 769.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

9.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Thestandard.com.hk main page is 10.1 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 9.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 111.9 kB

  • Original 130.6 kB
  • After minification 109.5 kB
  • After compression 18.6 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 21.1 kB, which is 16% 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 111.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 578.2 kB

  • Original 9.5 MB
  • After minification 8.9 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. The Standard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 74.1 kB

  • Original 368.1 kB
  • After minification 368.1 kB
  • After compression 294.1 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 74.1 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 102.0 kB
  • After minification 102.0 kB
  • After compression 96.9 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. Thestandard.com.hk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (25%)

Requests Now

122

After Optimization

92

The browser has sent 122 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Standard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thestandard.com.hk accessibility score

74

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

thestandard.com.hk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thestandard.com.hk SEO score

81

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thestandard.com.hk 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 Thestandard.com.hk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 The Standard. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: