Report Summary

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news.epochtimes.com.tw

台灣大紀元:獨立敢言的新聞媒體

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

news.epochtimes.com.tw screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.epochtimes.com.tw page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.epochtimes.com.tw performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

news.epochtimes.com.tw

1534 ms

www.epochtimes.com.tw

821 ms

style.css

821 ms

min.css

610 ms

css.css

620 ms

Our browser made a total of 204 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.epochtimes.com.tw, 34% (70 requests) were made to Img.epochtimes.com.tw and 14% (29 requests) were made to Epochtimes.com.tw. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) relates to the external source Img.epochtimes.com.tw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (30%)

Content Size

6.1 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of News.epochtimes.com.tw main page is 6.1 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. 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 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 320.9 kB

  • Original 386.4 kB
  • After minification 359.6 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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 320.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 241.8 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.8 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. News Epochtimes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 566.0 kB

  • Original 825.2 kB
  • After minification 767.7 kB
  • After compression 259.2 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 566.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 688.6 kB

  • Original 787.7 kB
  • After minification 751.4 kB
  • After compression 99.1 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. News.epochtimes.com.tw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 688.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (38%)

Requests Now

195

After Optimization

120

The browser has sent 195 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News 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 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

news.epochtimes.com.tw SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    JA

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.epochtimes.com.tw can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Japanese is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that News.epochtimes.com.tw 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 News Epochtimes. 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: