Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

xinhuanet.cn

新华网_让新闻离你更近

Page Load Speed

33.4 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

30.2 sec

Page Rendered

489 ms

xinhuanet.cn screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Xinhuanet.cn page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 30.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

xinhuanet.cn performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

xinhuanet.cn

2686 ms

Loading.gif

242 ms

xh_logo.png

1955 ms

slogan.png

238 ms

banner_slogan.png

2089 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Xinhuanet.cn, 41% (44 requests) were made to News.cn and 35% (38 requests) were made to Xinhuanet.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.5 sec) relates to the external source Webd.home.news.cn.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 644.3 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Xinhuanet.cn main page is 2.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 218.6 kB

  • Original 269.7 kB
  • After minification 257.7 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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 218.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 123.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Xinhuanet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 301.6 kB

  • Original 405.3 kB
  • After minification 356.3 kB
  • After compression 103.7 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 301.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 953 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 983 B
  • After compression 509 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. Xinhuanet.cn needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 953 B or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (19%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

84

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Xinhuanet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

xinhuanet.cn accessibility score

56

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

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

xinhuanet.cn 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

xinhuanet.cn SEO score

81

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

    ZH

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Xinhuanet.cn 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 Xinhuanet.cn 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 description is not detected on the main page of Xinhuanet. 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: