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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 11 October 202653 issues · 77 checks

This review found 53 issues worth fixing on daum.net, 22 of them high impact, across 77 checks. The most urgent: use efficient cache lifetimes. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.

  1. Homepage
  2. Phone render
  3. Links and pages
  4. Google PageSpeed

Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile

Full-page screenshot of daum.net (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. daum.net at 1.4 s1.4 s
  2. daum.net at 2.8 s2.8 s
  3. daum.net at 4.2 s4.2 s
  4. daum.net at 5.6 s5.6 s
  5. daum.net at 7.0 s7.0 s
  6. daum.net at 8.4 s8.4 s
  7. daum.net at 9.8 s9.8 s
  8. daum.net at 11.2 s11.2 s

Speed

13 to fix38
  • Use efficient cache lifetimes

    1.6 s · 3.8 MB

    152 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (3.8 MB).

  • Document request latency

    1.6 s

    The HTML itself could arrive about 1.6 s sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • Render-blocking requests

    1.3 s

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 1.3 s.

  • Mobile performance score: 38

    38/100

    Your mobile performance score is 38 (desktop: 58). Under 50 is Google's “poor” band: many phone visitors leave before the page is usable.

  • Main-thread work: 5.5 s

    A phone's processor spends 5.5 s on main-thread work while loading, 1.6 s of it running JavaScript. Above 2 s, taps and scrolls feel sluggish.

  • 3,129 HTML elements

    The page has 3,129 HTML elements. Above 1,500, rendering and every interaction get slower on phones.

  • Reduce unused JavaScript

    600 ms · 743 KiB

    About 743 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 600 ms faster on a phone.

  • Avoid multiple page redirects

    780 ms

    The page goes through 1 redirect before it starts loading, costing about 780 ms. Link and advertise the final URL directly.

  • Reduce initial server response time

    620 ms

    Reduce initial server response time. Google estimates savings of 620 ms on a phone.

  • Reduce unused CSS

    450 ms · 82 KiB

    About 82 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page. Google estimates it would make the page about 450 ms faster on a phone.

  • 11 long tasks on the main thread

    11 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 355 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.

  • pstatic.net adds 35 ms

    35 ms

    pstatic.net costs a phone 35 ms of main-thread work and 366 KiB of downloads while your page loads. Loading it after the page is usable, or only on the pages that need it, takes that off the critical path.

  • Server response: 720 ms

    720 ms

    Your server takes 720 ms to send the HTML. Google recommends under 600 ms; everything else waits for it.

  • 6 third-party services on the page

    6 third-party services load with your homepage (Google/Doubleclick Ads, kakaocdn.net and pstatic.net and others), adding 756 KiB and 300 ms of main-thread time.

  • Legacy JavaScript

    133 KiB

    Polyfills for old browsers add 133 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.

  • Improve image delivery

    41 KiB

    6 images could be 41 KiB smaller with modern formats (WebP or AVIF) and sizes that fit a phone screen.

  • Chained critical requests

    Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.

  • Forced reflow

    Scripts make the browser recalculate the layout repeatedly while the page loads, which wastes processor time on phones.

Core Web Vitals

10 to fix67
  • Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors

    Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.

  • Speed Index: 13.6 s

    13.6 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 13.6 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 6.4 s

    6.4 s

    Your largest element takes 6.4 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the text “김용지 깜짝 결혼”. Most of its time is element render delay (3.5 s).

  • Time to Interactive: 13.7 s

    13.7 s

    The page becomes fully interactive after 13.7 s. Good is under 3.8 s.

  • First Contentful Paint: 4.5 s

    4.5 s

    The first text or image appears after 4.5 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.21

    0.21

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.21 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user TTFB: 825 ms

    825 ms

    Real visitors wait 825 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • Total Blocking Time: 532 ms

    532 ms

    Scripts block taps and scrolling for 532 ms in total while the page loads. Good is under 200 ms.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0.168

    0.168

    The layout shifts by 0.168 while loading, so content jumps under the reader's thumb. Good is under 0.1.

  • 16 images without width and height

    16 images have no width and height attributes, so the layout jumps as each one loads.

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  • Real-user LCP: 2.2 s

    2.2 s

    Real visitors wait 2.2 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 87 ms

    87 ms

    Real visitors wait 87 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.1 s

    1.1 s

    Real visitors see the first content after 1.1 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.

Images and page weight

1 to fix70
  • Page weight: 7.1 MB in 240 requests

    7.1 MB

    Your homepage downloads 7.1 MB in 240 requests on a phone: media 3.9 MB (4), images 1.5 MB (162) and scripts 1.2 MB (23). Under 2 MB keeps phones on slow connections fast.

  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (52 KiB) is JPEG, PNG or GIF. The same pictures as WebP or AVIF are usually much smaller at the same quality, and every current browser shows them.

  • About 2.0 g of CO₂ per visit

    2.01 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 2.01 g of CO₂e: 241.2 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

2 checks passed
  • Images load when needed

    Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.

  • Images are sized for phones

    No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.

Accessibility

8 to fixGoogle 7887
  • 7 text elements with low contrast

    7 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • 3 tap targets too small

    3 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.

  • Form elements should have a visible label (1 element)

    Form elements should have a visible label: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

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

    [role]s are not contained by their required parent element (6 elements).

  • [aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

    [aria-*] attributes do not have valid values (1 element).

  • Zoom is disabled

    The viewport tag blocks pinch-zoom, which low-vision visitors rely on.

  • Hidden but focusable

    2 elements hidden from screen readers can still receive keyboard focus.

  • 1 link without text

    1 visible link has no text or label, so screen readers cannot say where it goes.

1 checks passed
  • 42 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 47 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 42 passed and 5 failed. 1 more need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

9 to fixGoogle 9155
  • robots.txt blocks all crawlers

    Your robots.txt disallows the whole site for every crawler, so search engines are told to stay out.

  • No H1 headline

    There is no <h1>, so neither visitors nor Google get a clear main headline.

  • Title is short (4 characters)

    Your title is only 4 characters: “Daum”. Between 30 and 65 characters leaves room to say what you do and for whom.

  • No structured data

    No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.

  • Meta description is short (61 characters)

    Your meta description is only 61 characters: “이용자 선택권을 강화한 뉴스, 세상의 모든 정보를 연결하는 검색. Daum에서 나의 관심 콘텐츠를 즐겨보세요.”. 70 to 160 characters is enough to sell the click.

  • No canonical URL

    No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.

  • No XML sitemap

    No XML sitemap at https://www.daum.net/sitemap.xml, so Google discovers your pages only by following links.

  • Only 0 internal links

    The homepage links to only 0 pages on your own site, so visitors and crawlers find few routes into the rest of it.

  • 1 link with vague text

    1 link use generic text like “click here” or “learn more”, which tells Google nothing about the page behind it.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is set, so this is minor.

1 checks passed
  • Open Graph tags complete

    Open Graph tags are complete, so shared links show a title, description and image.

AI search readiness

1 to fix83
  • No Organization structured data

    There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.

  • No llms.txt

    There is no https://www.daum.net/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.

1 checks passed
  • AI answer engines may read the site

    Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.

Best practices

4 to fixGoogle 7383
  • 71 distorted images

    71 images are displayed at the wrong aspect ratio, so they look stretched or squashed.

  • 10 small tap targets

    10 of 34 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.

  • Deprecated browser APIs

    The page uses 1 deprecated browser API that will stop working in future browsers (“Unload event listeners are deprecated and will be removed.”).

  • 2 JavaScript errors while loading

    2 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://t1.daumcdn.net/daumtop_deco/scripts/lib/swiper-js.min.css' from origin 'https://m.…”.

  • Missing source maps

    Large scripts ship without source maps.

1 checks passed
  • Mobile viewport set

    The page declares a mobile viewport.

Content and conversion

6 to fix25
  • No call to action on the first screen

    On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.

  • No calls to action

    We found no call-to-action buttons or links (such as “Book a demo” or “Get a quote”) anywhere on the homepage.

  • No social proof

    No testimonials, customer logos, ratings or customer counts on the homepage: nothing tells a new visitor that others already trust you.

  • No analytics detected

    No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.

  • No direct contact details

    No phone number or email link on the homepage, so ready-to-buy visitors have one fewer way to reach you.

  • Only about 5 words

    The homepage has only about 5 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • No form on the homepage

    There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.

  • No risk reducer

    No guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card) is mentioned, which is often what tips a hesitant visitor.

Privacy and tracking

1 to fix
  • 1 tracker load before any consent

    1

    Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Google Ads (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.

  • 3 cookies set on arrival

    3

    Opening the homepage sets 3 cookies (measured from a US location before any click).

  • No consent tool detected

    No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.

  • 7 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 7 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

Security, domain, email and software versions

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