Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

epochtimes.com

大纪元新闻网 - 海外最大中文媒体

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

116 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

761 ms

epochtimes.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Epochtimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 116 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

epochtimes.com performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.123

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

epochtimes.com

116 ms

www.epochtimes.com

147 ms

foundation.min.css

121 ms

spriteout.css

326 ms

front-page.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 187 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Epochtimes.com, 22% (41 requests) were made to I.epochtimes.com and 13% (24 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (465 ms) belongs to the original domain Epochtimes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (33%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Epochtimes.com main page is 6.4 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. 80% 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 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 178.6 kB

  • Original 206.5 kB
  • After minification 150.9 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 55.6 kB, which is 27% 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 178.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 210.5 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Epochtimes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 977.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 401.6 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 977.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 761.3 kB

  • Original 875.0 kB
  • After minification 791.8 kB
  • After compression 113.7 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. Epochtimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 761.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 94 (53%)

Requests Now

179

After Optimization

85

The browser has sent 179 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Epochtimes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

epochtimes.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Best Practices

epochtimes.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

epochtimes.com SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    ZH

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Epochtimes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Chinese is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Epochtimes.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 Epochtimes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: