Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

118news.com.au

118全球新闻网 | 118news.com.au - 澳大利亚华人媒体新闻网站|澳洲新闻|悉尼新闻|国际新闻头条|No.1 Online Chinese News Australia

Page Load Speed

13.5 sec in total

First Response

859 ms

Resources Loaded

11.9 sec

Page Rendered

698 ms

118news.com.au screenshot

About Website

Welcome to 118news.com.au homepage info - get ready to check 118 News best content for Australia right away, or after learning these important things about 118news.com.au

118news.com.au - Online Chinese News Portal Australia 118全球新闻网是一家总部设在悉尼的澳洲华人新闻门户网站为澳洲本地读者24小时提供最新最快的悉尼新闻、墨尔本新闻以及其他澳洲本地的商业信息,以澳洲视角出发为全球读者提供国际新闻和体育,娱乐,财经,健康等各类中文资讯。

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Key Findings

We analyzed 118news.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 859 ms and then it took 12.6 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

118news.com.au performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.193

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.6 s

81/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

118news.com.au

859 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

1009 ms

swiper.css

409 ms

style_2_common.css

802 ms

common.js

803 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original 118news.com.au, 8% (10 requests) were made to Acnw.com.au and 2% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain 118news.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 282.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of 118news.com.au main page is 4.8 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. 75% 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 75.9 kB

  • Original 98.8 kB
  • After minification 90.0 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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 75.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 201.2 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. 118 News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 113.9 kB
  • After minification 113.9 kB
  • After compression 109.7 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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. 118news.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (12%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

100

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 118 News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

118news.com.au accessibility score

56

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.

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

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

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

118news.com.au best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

118news.com.au SEO score

92

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

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

    GBK

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 118news.com.au 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 118news.com.au main page’s claimed encoding is gbk. 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 118 News. 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: