Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

yp.scmp.com

News, entertainment and advice for global teens - YP | South China Morning Post

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

880 ms

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

510 ms

yp.scmp.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yp.scmp.com page load time and found that the first response time was 880 ms and then it took 11 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

yp.scmp.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.273

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yp.scmp.com

880 ms

css_ogjvJnfni1_P_WxvXAHlUOgCs860b3ip9DNMapcIGeM.css

437 ms

css_VbVKj9gvfc8vBK99h8pgE29NAELJHrc8D8D5QLtyOBk.css

447 ms

css_o2t2C4MSlYnMywipzVTUhfl6tkREF3R0rsmvWmXgYWs.css

439 ms

css_gwMcKTK3p_LzA9YrnvVfMuWTsRsemfM_HF0f2ammpWs.css

450 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (132 requests) were addressed to the original Yp.scmp.com, 3% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Yp.scmp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (29%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Yp.scmp.com main page is 6.8 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 225.8 kB

  • Original 261.9 kB
  • After minification 250.8 kB
  • After compression 36.1 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 225.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 798.9 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 4.6 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. Obviously, YP Scmp needs image optimization as it can save up to 798.9 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 643.8 kB

  • Original 862.9 kB
  • After minification 649.9 kB
  • After compression 219.1 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 643.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-97%

Potential reduce by 333.0 kB

  • Original 344.2 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Yp.scmp.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 333.0 kB or 97% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (21%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

118

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of YP Scmp. 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

yp.scmp.com accessibility score

57

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

yp.scmp.com 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

yp.scmp.com SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Yp.scmp.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 Yp.scmp.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 YP Scmp. 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: