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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    28% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

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Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

349 ms

Resources Loaded

8 sec

Page Rendered

557 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Subscribe.sph.com.sg page load time and found that the first response time was 349 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

subscribe.sph.com.sg performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,590 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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349 ms

subscribe.sph.com.sg

2196 ms

style-login.css

435 ms

style.css

457 ms

base.css

421 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Subscribe.sph.com.sg, 9% (9 requests) were made to Service.force.com and 9% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Dtm-dra.platform.hicloud.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 369.1 kB (39%)

Content Size

937.5 kB

After Optimization

568.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Subscribe.sph.com.sg main page is 937.5 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. 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. HTML takes 351.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 223.5 kB

  • Original 351.2 kB
  • After minification 347.7 kB
  • After compression 127.6 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. 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 223.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 53.9 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. Subscribe SPH images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 199.5 kB
  • After minification 199.5 kB
  • After compression 160.1 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 39.4 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 102.7 kB

  • Original 329.5 kB
  • After minification 329.4 kB
  • After compression 226.8 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. Subscribe.sph.com.sg needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.7 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (82%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Subscribe SPH. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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349 ms

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2196 ms

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435 ms

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457 ms

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421 ms

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Accessibility Review

subscribe.sph.com.sg accessibility score

73

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Best Practices

subscribe.sph.com.sg best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

subscribe.sph.com.sg SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Subscribe.sph.com.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 Subscribe.sph.com.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Subscribe SPH. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: