Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

singaporestar.com

Singapore Star | National Singapore, Regional & International News

Page Load Speed

340 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

250 ms

Page Rendered

60 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Singaporestar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 310 ms 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

singaporestar.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,240 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

singaporestar.com

30 ms

www.singaporestar.com

51 ms

challenge.js

163 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Singaporestar.com, 33% (1 request) were made to 080c94cd0d00.d6460c90.us-east-1.token.awswaf.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (163 ms) relates to the external source 080c94cd0d00.d6460c90.us-east-1.token.awswaf.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 942 B (0%)

Content Size

293.3 kB

After Optimization

292.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Singaporestar.com main page is 293.3 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 290.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 942 B

  • Original 2.4 kB
  • After minification 2.4 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 942 B or 39% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 290.9 kB
  • After minification 290.9 kB
  • After compression 290.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Singapore Star. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

singaporestar.com accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

SEO Factors

singaporestar.com SEO score

77

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

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 Singaporestar.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 Singaporestar.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 Singapore Star. 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: