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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

wechat.com

WeChat - Free messaging and calling app

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

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About Website

Welcome to wechat.com homepage info - get ready to check We Chat best content for China right away, or after learning these important things about wechat.com

Available for all kinds of platforms; enjoy group chat; support voice,photo,video and text messages.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wechat.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wechat.com performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wechat.com

2051 ms

46172cee66bf4f26d72091b7741b1a7e.css

396 ms

jquery.min.js

411 ms

index_f89dbf8.js

422 ms

1-MVNBf.png

443 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wechat.com, 93% (13 requests) were made to Newres.wechat.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Wechat.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

376.8 kB

After Optimization

369.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wechat.com main page is 376.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 296.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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 7.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 296.3 kB
  • After minification 296.3 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. We Chat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 67.2 kB
  • After minification 67.2 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 40 B

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 2.7 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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. Wechat.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of We Chat. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.wechat.com

www.wechat.com

2051 ms

46172cee66bf4f26d72091b7741b1a7e.css

46172cee66bf4f26d72091b7741b1a7e.css

396 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

411 ms

index_f89dbf8.js

index_f89dbf8.js

422 ms

1-MVNBf.png

1-MVNBf.png

443 ms

1jwBxj0.png

1jwBxj0.png

421 ms

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3cBQnDI.jpg

47 ms

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3ou3PnG.png

40 ms

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3MmDWEv.png

40 ms

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uq8YAlZ.png

65 ms

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u7U1PY3.png

46 ms

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46 ms

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1TQxEzr.png

52 ms

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1on3CPc.png

53 ms

Accessibility Review

wechat.com accessibility score

68

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

wechat.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

wechat.com SEO score

67

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

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 Wechat.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 Wechat.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

wechat.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of We Chat. 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: