Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

weibo.com

微博北美站

Page Load Speed

13.7 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

11.6 sec

Page Rendered

108 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Weibo.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 11.7 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

weibo.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

visitor

2062 ms

mini.js

4315 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Weibo.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) relates to the external source Passport.weibo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 21.0 kB (63%)

Content Size

33.3 kB

After Optimization

12.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Weibo.com main page is 33.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 27.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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 4.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 16.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Weibo. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

weibo.com accessibility score

60

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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

weibo.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

weibo.com SEO score

77

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    GB2312

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Weibo.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Chinese is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Weibo.com main page’s claimed encoding is gb2312. 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 description is not detected on the main page of Weibo. 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: