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channel8news.sg

8视界

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

542 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

Welcome to channel8news.sg homepage info - get ready to check Channel 8 News best content for Singapore right away, or after learning these important things about channel8news.sg

8world.com is a one-stop Chinese news, entertainment and lifestyle interactive portal, bringing together the best contents across Mediacorp's Chinese TV (Channel 8, Channel U), Radio (YES 933, Ca...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Channel8news.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 542 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

channel8news.sg performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

channel8news.sg

542 ms

www.channel8news.sg

817 ms

jquery-smartbanner-css.css

7 ms

theme-fullsite.css

7 ms

jquery.min.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 197 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Channel8news.sg, 9% (18 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 9% (18 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Login.mediacorp.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (38%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Channel8news.sg main page is 3.1 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 136.0 kB

  • Original 177.3 kB
  • After minification 168.4 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 136.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Channel 8 News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 818.2 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 485.4 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 818.2 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 197.4 kB

  • Original 246.7 kB
  • After minification 245.4 kB
  • After compression 49.3 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. Channel8news.sg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 197.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (50%)

Requests Now

193

After Optimization

97

The browser has sent 193 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Channel 8 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 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Channel8news.sg 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 Channel8news.sg 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 data is detected on the main page of Channel 8 News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: