Report Summary

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    Performance

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

en.korea.com

Korea | Korea Hallyu | K-pop | hallyu

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

626 ms

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

379 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed En.korea.com page load time and found that the first response time was 626 ms and then it took 10.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

en.korea.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

en.korea.com

626 ms

www1.korea.com

5380 ms

custom.css

399 ms

style.css

406 ms

style.css

410 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original En.korea.com, 63% (80 requests) were made to Www1.korea.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.4 sec) relates to the external source Www1.korea.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 862.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of En.korea.com main page is 2.1 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. 75% 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 928.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 69.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.1 kB, which is 19% 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 71.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 33.1 kB

  • Original 928.1 kB
  • After minification 895.0 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. En Korea images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 492.4 kB

  • Original 763.9 kB
  • After minification 729.8 kB
  • After compression 271.4 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 492.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 264.7 kB

  • Original 321.2 kB
  • After minification 311.4 kB
  • After compression 56.5 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. En.korea.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 264.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (27%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

90

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of En Korea. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

en.korea.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    KO

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise En.korea.com 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 Korean language. Our system also found out that En.korea.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 description is not detected on the main page of En Korea. 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: