Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

hkpl.gov.hk

Hong Kong Public Libraries

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

461 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

693 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hkpl.gov.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 461 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hkpl.gov.hk performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hkpl.gov.hk

461 ms

www.hkpl.gov.hk

1144 ms

piwik.js

227 ms

jquery-1.8.2.min.js

895 ms

jquery.cookie.js

650 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hkpl.gov.hk and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Hkpl.gov.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.5 kB (64%)

Content Size

126.1 kB

After Optimization

45.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Hkpl.gov.hk main page is 126.1 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 119.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 6.2 kB
  • After compression 2.6 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 3.6 kB or 58% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 119.8 kB
  • After minification 116.6 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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 76.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hkpl. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

hkpl.gov.hk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

hkpl.gov.hk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

hkpl.gov.hk SEO score

85

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

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 Hkpl.gov.hk 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 Hkpl.gov.hk 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 Hkpl. 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: