Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

mom.gov.sg

Ministry of Manpower

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

189 ms

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About Website

Visit mom.gov.sg now to see the best up-to-date Mom content for Singapore and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mom.gov.sg

Your source for manpower-related information and services in Singapore - includes work passes, employment practices, workplace safety and health and labour market statistics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mom.gov.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mom.gov.sg performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mom.gov.sg

1070 ms

gtm.js

89 ms

wogaa.js

43 ms

bootstrap.css

20 ms

main.css

378 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Mom.gov.sg, 3% (3 requests) were made to Assets.wogaa.sg and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Api.search.gov.sg.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

962.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Mom.gov.sg main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 622.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 49.7 kB

  • Original 81.9 kB
  • After minification 68.8 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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 13.1 kB, which is 16% 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 49.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 166.0 kB

  • Original 622.1 kB
  • After minification 456.1 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, Mom needs image optimization as it can save up to 166.0 kB or 27% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 90.2 kB

  • Original 514.5 kB
  • After minification 514.5 kB
  • After compression 424.3 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 90.2 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 55.9 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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. Mom.gov.sg has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (71%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mom.gov.sg accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

mom.gov.sg 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mom.gov.sg SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mom.gov.sg 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 Mom.gov.sg 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 data is detected on the main page of Mom. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: