Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

shipping.dhl.com.sg

Global Logistics - International Shipping | DHL Home | Singapore

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

325 ms

Resources Loaded

828 ms

Page Rendered

292 ms

shipping.dhl.com.sg screenshot

About Website

Welcome to shipping.dhl.com.sg homepage info - get ready to check Shipping DHL best content for Singapore right away, or after learning these important things about shipping.dhl.com.sg

DHL is the global leader in the logistics industry. Specializing in international shipping, courier services and transportation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shipping.dhl.com.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 325 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Shipping.dhl.com.sg rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

shipping.dhl.com.sg performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,040 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.131

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shipping.dhl.com.sg

325 ms

ixp-runtime.min.js

146 ms

ixp-microthemes.min.css

110 ms

common.css

110 ms

commonresponsive.css

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Shipping.dhl.com.sg, 30% (9 requests) were made to 3655c9b7d0e4c7eb8e62-f41b8e4824d18971b72e44324f6764b3.r43.cf1.rackcdn.com and 17% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (379 ms) relates to the external source 3655c9b7d0e4c7eb8e62-f41b8e4824d18971b72e44324f6764b3.r43.cf1.rackcdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 244.8 kB (46%)

Content Size

530.2 kB

After Optimization

285.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Shipping.dhl.com.sg main page is 530.2 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. Images take 196.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 24.6 kB

  • Original 29.7 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 9.1 kB, which is 31% 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 24.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 196.3 kB
  • After minification 182.5 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. Shipping DHL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

  • Original 180.2 kB
  • After minification 180.1 kB
  • After compression 85.0 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 95.3 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 111.1 kB

  • Original 123.9 kB
  • After minification 108.1 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. Shipping.dhl.com.sg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 111.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (36%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shipping DHL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shipping.dhl.com.sg accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

shipping.dhl.com.sg best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

shipping.dhl.com.sg SEO score

86

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

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 Shipping.dhl.com.sg 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 Shipping.dhl.com.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 description is not detected on the main page of Shipping DHL. 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: