Report Summary

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channelnewsasia.com

CNA: Breaking News, Singapore News, World and Asia

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

192 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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About Website

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CNA. Breaking news in Singapore and Asia, top stories from around the world; business, sport, lifestyle, technology, health and commentary sections. Watch CNA's 24/7 livestream.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Channelnewsasia.com page load time and found that the first response time was 192 ms and then it took 7.2 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

channelnewsasia.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

channelnewsasia.com

192 ms

www.channelnewsasia.com

147 ms

styles.css

21 ms

news.css

19 ms

jquery.min.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Channelnewsasia.com, 7% (11 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 6% (10 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Uid.mediacorp.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.2 MB (54%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Channelnewsasia.com main page is 7.8 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. 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. Javascripts take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 110.8 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 1.0 MB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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 News Asia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB
  • After compression 1.6 MB

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 3.0 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 119.1 kB

  • Original 139.4 kB
  • After minification 138.7 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Channelnewsasia.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 119.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (63%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Channel News Asia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 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

    DE

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Channelnewsasia.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed German language. Our system also found out that Channelnewsasia.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 data is detected on the main page of Channel News Asia. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: