Tools & Wizards About Us
northkoreatimes.com screenshot

Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

northkoreatimes.com

North Korea Times | Oldest News Site in North Korea

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

48 ms

Resources Loaded

988 ms

Page Rendered

543 ms

northkoreatimes.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to northkoreatimes.com homepage info - get ready to check North Korea Times best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about northkoreatimes.com

Online newspaper for North Korea, presents breaking local news, the top stories, business headlines and North Korea weather. XML RSS feeds, facility to add or be emailed North Korea news headlines, mo...

Visit northkoreatimes.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Northkoreatimes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 48 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

northkoreatimes.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

36/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,790 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northkoreatimes.com

48 ms

www.northkoreatimes.com

59 ms

foundation.min.css

45 ms

white_style.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Northkoreatimes.com, 30% (20 requests) were made to Static.midwestradionetwork.com and 19% (13 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (547 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 264.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Northkoreatimes.com main page is 1.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.8 kB

  • Original 36.4 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 7.7 kB, which is 21% 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 28.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 998.3 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. North Korea Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 218.7 kB

  • Original 380.2 kB
  • After minification 380.2 kB
  • After compression 161.4 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 218.7 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 755 B

  • Original 64.1 kB
  • After minification 64.1 kB
  • After compression 63.4 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. Northkoreatimes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (28%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Korea 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

northkoreatimes.com

northkoreatimes.com

48 ms

www.northkoreatimes.com

www.northkoreatimes.com

59 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

45 ms

white_style.css

white_style.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

53 ms

app.js

app.js

48 ms

nmedianet.js

nmedianet.js

33 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

66 ms

stick.js

stick.js

56 ms

css

css

30 ms

css

css

46 ms

css

css

50 ms

white_wrap.png

white_wrap.png

118 ms

ani1718005567.jpg

ani1718005567.jpg

138 ms

WKkvJH8aZEc

WKkvJH8aZEc

195 ms

mLsC598bx3I

mLsC598bx3I

347 ms

flping.php

flping.php

193 ms

damned-large.jpg

damned-large.jpg

212 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

258 ms

cus1717817488375.jpg

cus1717817488375.jpg

54 ms

cus1717932021754.jpg

cus1717932021754.jpg

51 ms

cus1717735077307.jpg

cus1717735077307.jpg

51 ms

cus1717646512161.jpg

cus1717646512161.jpg

51 ms

cus1717649116774.jpg

cus1717649116774.jpg

97 ms

cus1717647272514.jpg

cus1717647272514.jpg

547 ms

cus1718012059774.jpg

cus1718012059774.jpg

97 ms

cus1717989119425.jpg

cus1717989119425.jpg

97 ms

cus1717980155647.jpg

cus1717980155647.jpg

97 ms

cus1717820318994.jpg

cus1717820318994.jpg

96 ms

cus1717817663598.jpg

cus1717817663598.jpg

167 ms

cus1717817195421.jpg

cus1717817195421.jpg

168 ms

north-korea-times.png

north-korea-times.png

28 ms

he-fb-icon.png

he-fb-icon.png

28 ms

he-tw-icon.png

he-tw-icon.png

28 ms

he-go-icon.png

he-go-icon.png

47 ms

he-wefi-icon.png

he-wefi-icon.png

48 ms

icon_facebook.png

icon_facebook.png

49 ms

icon_twitter.png

icon_twitter.png

50 ms

icon_google.png

icon_google.png

50 ms

icon_sms.png

icon_sms.png

61 ms

rew-releases.jpg

rew-releases.jpg

97 ms

29.png

29.png

94 ms

d30d3e67b6ae28d1.jpg

d30d3e67b6ae28d1.jpg

94 ms

fb-icon.jpg

fb-icon.jpg

95 ms

tw-icon.jpg

tw-icon.jpg

94 ms

go-icon.jpg

go-icon.jpg

94 ms

wifi-icon.jpg

wifi-icon.jpg

166 ms

flping.php

flping.php

95 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

53 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

60 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmSU5fBBc9.ttf

94 ms

KFOkCnqEu92Fr1MmgVxIIzc.ttf

KFOkCnqEu92Fr1MmgVxIIzc.ttf

95 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmWUlfBBc9.ttf

117 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmYUtfBBc9.ttf

143 ms

wlp2gwHKFkZgtmSR3NB0oRJfbwhW.ttf

wlp2gwHKFkZgtmSR3NB0oRJfbwhW.ttf

164 ms

wlppgwHKFkZgtmSR3NB0oRJXsCxGDNNV.ttf

wlppgwHKFkZgtmSR3NB0oRJXsCxGDNNV.ttf

118 ms

wlppgwHKFkZgtmSR3NB0oRJX1C1GDNNV.ttf

wlppgwHKFkZgtmSR3NB0oRJX1C1GDNNV.ttf

117 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

75 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

123 ms

base.js

base.js

157 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

346 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

232 ms

xaCqA6YWeoHIgxSknUISl_7iTeuf2pd3Zmq9QI9ChSs.js

xaCqA6YWeoHIgxSknUISl_7iTeuf2pd3Zmq9QI9ChSs.js

170 ms

embed.js

embed.js

101 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

25 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

25 ms

id

id

35 ms

Accessibility Review

northkoreatimes.com accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

SEO Factors

northkoreatimes.com SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Northkoreatimes.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 Northkoreatimes.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

northkoreatimes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of North Korea Times. 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: