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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

singaporetimes.net

Singapore Times

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

420 ms

Resources Loaded

12.4 sec

Page Rendered

480 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Singaporetimes.net page load time and found that the first response time was 420 ms and then it took 12.9 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

singaporetimes.net performance score

35

Measured Metrics

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value

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weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value20.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 178 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Singaporetimes.net, 51% (91 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 5% (9 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) relates to the external source Wn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (41%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Singaporetimes.net main page is 5.0 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 277.4 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 1.6 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 37.2 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Singapore Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 394.0 kB

  • Original 599.5 kB
  • After minification 592.7 kB
  • After compression 205.5 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 394.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (20%)

Requests Now

166

After Optimization

132

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 166 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Singapore 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

singaporetimes.net accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

singaporetimes.net best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

singaporetimes.net SEO score

85

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

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 Singaporetimes.net 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 Singaporetimes.net 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

singaporetimes.net

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