Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

news.rthk.hk

香港電台新聞網 - RTHK

Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

723 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

344 ms

news.rthk.hk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing News RTHK content for Hong Kong. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about news.rthk.hk

香港電台新聞網站支援跨平台裝置,包括電腦、手機及平板電腦等;除提供即時本地、大中華及國際等新聞外,各新聞節目環節均可獨立重溫;此外,用戶更可隨時隨地通過不同形式接收我們最新的新聞資訊,例如:訂閱RSS新聞、Facebook 及 newsletter等。

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.rthk.hk page load time and found that the first response time was 723 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.rthk.hk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value960 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.rthk.hk

723 ms

458 ms

megamenu.css

485 ms

k2.css

460 ms

social.css

456 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original News.rthk.hk, 30% (33 requests) were made to Newsstatic.rthk.hk and 5% (5 requests) were made to Programme.rthk.hk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain News.rthk.hk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (44%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of News.rthk.hk main page is 3.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 129.7 kB

  • Original 154.1 kB
  • After minification 145.9 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 129.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 686.0 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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, News RTHK needs image optimization as it can save up to 686.0 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 418.8 kB

  • Original 590.7 kB
  • After minification 561.3 kB
  • After compression 171.9 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 418.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 314.4 kB

  • Original 369.0 kB
  • After minification 300.6 kB
  • After compression 54.6 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. News.rthk.hk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 314.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (49%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News RTHK. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

news.rthk.hk accessibility score

63

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

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

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

High

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

Best Practices

news.rthk.hk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

news.rthk.hk SEO score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    JA

  • Language Claimed

    ZH

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.rthk.hk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Japanese is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Chinese language. Our system also found out that News.rthk.hk 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 News RTHK. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: