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epaper.singtao.com

星島電子報

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

677 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

204 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epaper.singtao.com page load time and found that the first response time was 677 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epaper.singtao.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

epaper.singtao.com

677 ms

stepaper.stheadline.com

1326 ms

singtao_main.js

439 ms

singtaoonline_top_date_weather.js

661 ms

comScoreUpper.js

659 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Epaper.singtao.com, 79% (71 requests) were made to Stepaper.stheadline.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Stepaper.stheadline.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 406.7 kB (61%)

Content Size

662.0 kB

After Optimization

255.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Epaper.singtao.com main page is 662.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 490.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 30.1 kB
  • After minification 24.4 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.7 kB, which is 19% 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 24.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 114.2 kB
  • After minification 82.5 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. Obviously, Epaper Singtao needs image optimization as it can save up to 31.7 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 326.9 kB

  • Original 490.3 kB
  • After minification 487.8 kB
  • After compression 163.4 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 326.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Epaper.singtao.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 24.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (79%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epaper Singtao. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

epaper.singtao.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    BIG5

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Epaper.singtao.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 Epaper.singtao.com main page’s claimed encoding is big5. 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 Epaper Singtao. 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: