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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 43

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

lycos.cn

lycos.cn

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

647 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lycos.cn page load time and found that the first response time was 647 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lycos.cn performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lycos.cn

647 ms

system.css

68 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

268 ms

templet-link.png

67 ms

common-avatar.png

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 10 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Lycos.cn and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (647 ms) belongs to the original domain Lycos.cn.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.6 kB (50%)

Content Size

47.2 kB

After Optimization

23.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lycos.cn main page is 47.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 4.0 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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 603 B, which is 15% 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 2.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 19.7 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. Obviously, Lycos needs image optimization as it can save up to 7.5 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 16.0 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Lycos.cn needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lycos. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

lycos.cn

lycos.cn

647 ms

system.css

system.css

68 ms

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

jquery-1.11.3.min.js

268 ms

templet-link.png

templet-link.png

67 ms

common-avatar.png

common-avatar.png

66 ms

b60a8aab02a8778d28ffe96b1e9f0c3d_tel.png

b60a8aab02a8778d28ffe96b1e9f0c3d_tel.png

152 ms

b60a8aab02a8778d28ffe96b1e9f0c3d_email.png

b60a8aab02a8778d28ffe96b1e9f0c3d_email.png

152 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

105 ms

main-content-top-bar-1.png

main-content-top-bar-1.png

105 ms

contact-qq.png

contact-qq.png

132 ms

Accessibility Review

lycos.cn accessibility score

48

Accessibility Issues

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.

Names and labels

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.

Impact

Issue

High

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

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

Best Practices

lycos.cn best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lycos.cn SEO score

43

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lycos.cn can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Chinese is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Lycos.cn 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

lycos.cn

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Lycos. 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: