Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

corp.sohu.com

搜狐公司-搜狐

Page Load Speed

14.9 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

12.2 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

corp.sohu.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Corp Sohu content for China. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about corp.sohu.com

搜狐是中国领先的互联网媒体、搜索、在线游戏集团,拥有搜狐公司(NASDAQ: SOHU)、畅游公司(NASDAQ:CYOU)和搜狗公司(NYSE:SOGO)三家美国上市公司,是中文世界领先的互联网品牌之一。“搜狐”在中国是家喻户晓的名字,也是2008北京奥运会互联网内容服务赞助商。搜狐为中国超过7亿的互联网和移动互联网用户提供全面网络服务。

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Key Findings

We analyzed Corp.sohu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 12.4 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

corp.sohu.com performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.6 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

corp.sohu.com

2542 ms

sohuflash_1.js

1841 ms

jquery-1.3.2.js

4208 ms

menu.js

227 ms

global1.3.css

4629 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Corp.sohu.com, 9% (2 requests) were made to I0.itc.cn and 9% (2 requests) were made to I2.itc.cn. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) relates to the external source I2.itc.cn.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.1 kB (64%)

Content Size

242.7 kB

After Optimization

88.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Corp.sohu.com main page is 242.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 129.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 16.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 91.7 kB
  • After minification 59.1 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, Corp Sohu needs image optimization as it can save up to 32.5 kB or 36% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 105.2 kB

  • Original 129.2 kB
  • After minification 82.6 kB
  • After compression 24.0 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 105.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 237 B

  • Original 995 B
  • After minification 995 B
  • After compression 758 B

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. Corp.sohu.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 237 B or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (29%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Corp Sohu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

corp.sohu.com accessibility score

80

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

corp.sohu.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

corp.sohu.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    GB2312

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Corp.sohu.com 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 Corp.sohu.com main page’s claimed encoding is gb2312. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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