Access japantimes.com. The Japan Times - News On Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment And More

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value

score

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FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,670 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.2 s

0/100

10%

japantimes.com

353 ms

www.japantimes.co.jp

52 ms

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style.css

54 ms

flexslider.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Japantimes.com, 31% (40 requests) were made to Japantimes.co.jp and 17% (21 requests) were made to D1udmfvw0p7cd2.cloudfront.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (700 ms) relates to the external source Jto.s3.amazonaws.com.

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Japantimes.com main page is 2.0 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. Javascripts take 802.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 251.0 kB

Original 320.6 kB
After minification 297.5 kB
After compression 69.6 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 251.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

Original 683.8 kB
After minification 658.9 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. Japan Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 467.4 kB

Original 802.4 kB
After minification 802.4 kB
After compression 335.1 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 467.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 142.4 kB

Original 170.4 kB
After minification 163.5 kB
After compression 28.0 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. Japantimes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 142.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Japan Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

[role] values are not valid

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Japantimes.com 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 Japantimes.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

japantimes.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Japan Times. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

The Japan Times - News On Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment And More

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

japantimes.com

www.japantimes.co.jp

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style.css

flexslider.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

japantimes.com

www.japantimes.co.jp

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