Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    22% of websites

expat.com.my

Expatriates Malaysia - Info centre for expats working, moving to and living in KL Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Malaysia

Page Load Speed

31.4 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

17.6 sec

Page Rendered

10.4 sec

About Website

Click here to check amazing Expat content for Malaysia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about expat.com.my

Articles, essential information and resources guide for global expatriates working, retiring or moving to KL Malaysia, housing, schooling, community and society contacts and expat links.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Expat.com.my page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 28 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

expat.com.my performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,470 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

expat.com.my

3418 ms

adsbygoogle.js

143 ms

Expatriate%20Malaysia%20Expat.Com.My.gif

2186 ms

ca-pub-5840613809354105.js

5725 ms

zrt_lookup.html

5561 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Expat.com.my, 17% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 14% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.7 kB (53%)

Content Size

607.9 kB

After Optimization

287.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Expat.com.my main page is 607.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 509.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 45.5 kB
  • After minification 40.7 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.8 kB, which is 11% 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 37.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 52.5 kB
  • After minification 52.5 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. Expat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 283.1 kB

  • Original 509.9 kB
  • After minification 509.9 kB
  • After compression 226.9 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 283.1 kB or 56% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Expat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

expat.com.my accessibility score

65

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

SEO Factors

expat.com.my SEO score

62

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Expat.com.my can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Expat.com.my main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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 Expat. 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: