Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

echinacities.net

China Expat | Expat China|外国人网|Guides to 41 Chinese cities - eChinacities.com

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

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About Website

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An English-language website covering 175 cities in China for foreigners in China. News, Articles, Jobs, Classifieds, Listings and more.....外国人网外国人在中国的综合门户网站!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Echinacities.net page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

echinacities.net performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,720 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

echinacities.net

174 ms

www.echinacities.net

141 ms

www.echinacities.net

580 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

412 ms

jquery.tap.js

339 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Echinacities.net, 12% (8 requests) were made to Static.echinacities.com and 10% (7 requests) were made to Static.echinacities.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Hm.baidu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 339.7 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

955.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Echinacities.net main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 779.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 277.2 kB

  • Original 308.9 kB
  • After minification 159.1 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 149.8 kB, which is 49% 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 277.2 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 779.9 kB
  • After minification 738.8 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. EChinacities images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 143.2 kB
  • After minification 140.4 kB
  • After compression 129.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 63.0 kB
  • After compression 55.8 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. Echinacities.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.3 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (38%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EChinacities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

echinacities.net accessibility score

61

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

echinacities.net 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

echinacities.net SEO score

82

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Echinacities.net 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 Echinacities.net 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 data is detected on the main page of EChinacities. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: