Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ctext.org

Chinese Text Project

Page Load Speed

658 ms in total

First Response

111 ms

Resources Loaded

375 ms

Page Rendered

172 ms

ctext.org screenshot

About Website

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The world's largest digital library of pre-modern Chinese: an open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attemp...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctext.org page load time and found that the first response time was 111 ms and then it took 547 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ctext.org performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ctext.org

111 ms

text9.css

33 ms

text11.js

65 ms

analytics.js

35 ms

mobile.png

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Ctext.org, 6% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (130 ms) belongs to the original domain Ctext.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 143.7 kB (55%)

Content Size

260.1 kB

After Optimization

116.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Ctext.org main page is 260.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 81.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 66.6 kB

  • Original 78.5 kB
  • After minification 78.4 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. 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 66.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 81.0 kB
  • After minification 81.0 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. C Text images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 53.4 kB

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 53.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 21.6 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Ctext.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of C Text. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

ctext.org accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Best Practices

ctext.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

ctext.org SEO score

88

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

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

    ZH

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ctext.org 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 Chinese language. Our system also found out that Ctext.org 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 C Text. 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: