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Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 12 October 202633 issues · 76 checks

This review found 33 issues worth fixing on douban.com, 8 of them high impact, across 76 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. 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

Real-visitor load time (LCP)75th percentile, phones
1.2 s1.0 sApr 18Oct 31.1 s
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DateReal-visitor load time (LCP)
Apr 18, 20261.1 s
Apr 25, 20261.1 s
May 2, 20261.1 s
May 9, 20261.1 s
May 16, 20261.1 s
May 23, 20261.1 s
May 30, 20261.0 s
Jun 6, 20261.1 s
Jun 13, 20261.1 s
Jun 20, 20261.1 s
Jun 27, 20261.1 s
Jul 4, 20261.1 s
Jul 11, 20261.1 s
Jul 18, 20261.1 s
Jul 25, 20261.1 s
Aug 1, 20261.1 s
Aug 8, 20261.2 s
Aug 15, 20261.2 s
Aug 22, 20261.2 s
Aug 29, 20261.2 s
Sep 5, 20261.1 s
Sep 12, 20261.1 s
Sep 19, 20261.1 s
Sep 26, 20261.1 s
Oct 3, 20261.1 s
Real-visitor tap response (INP)75th percentile, phones
286 ms277 msApr 18Oct 3281 ms
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DateReal-visitor tap response (INP)
Apr 18, 2026282 ms
Apr 25, 2026281 ms
May 2, 2026281 ms
May 9, 2026281 ms
May 16, 2026282 ms
May 23, 2026284 ms
May 30, 2026284 ms
Jun 6, 2026285 ms
Jun 13, 2026285 ms
Jun 20, 2026284 ms
Jun 27, 2026282 ms
Jul 4, 2026280 ms
Jul 11, 2026280 ms
Jul 18, 2026279 ms
Jul 25, 2026279 ms
Aug 1, 2026279 ms
Aug 8, 2026279 ms
Aug 15, 2026279 ms
Aug 22, 2026279 ms
Aug 29, 2026278 ms
Sep 5, 2026278 ms
Sep 12, 2026279 ms
Sep 19, 2026279 ms
Sep 26, 2026280 ms
Oct 3, 2026281 ms

Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.

One score from every part of this review. How it works

Full-page screenshot of douban.com (desktop) rendered by Google PageSpeed Insights

How it loaded on a phone

  1. douban.com at 0.4 s0.4 s
  2. douban.com at 0.8 s0.8 s
  3. douban.com at 1.1 s1.1 s
  4. douban.com at 1.5 s1.5 s
  5. douban.com at 1.9 s1.9 s
  6. douban.com at 2.3 s2.3 s
  7. douban.com at 2.6 s2.6 s
  8. douban.com at 3.0 s3.0 s

Speed

3 to fix91
  • Document request latency

    900 ms

    The HTML itself could arrive about 900 ms sooner: redirects, a slow server response or missing compression delay everything after it.

  • 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.

  • Render-blocking requests

    750 ms

    2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 750 ms.

  • 2 third-party services on the page

    2 third-party services load with your homepage (Baidu Analytics and doubanio.com), adding 74 KiB and 22 ms of main-thread time.

  • Improve image delivery

    9 KiB

    1 image could be 9 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.

3 checks passed
  • Mobile performance score: 91

    91/100

    Your mobile performance score is 91 (desktop: 90). That is in Google's “good” band (90 and up).

  • Main-thread work: 0.1 s

    A phone's processor spends 0.1 s on main-thread work while loading, 28 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.

  • Server response: 1 ms

    1 ms

    Your server sent the HTML in 1 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.

Core Web Vitals

6 to fix100
  • 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.

  • Real-user TTFB: 1.3 s

    1.3 s

    Real visitors wait 1.3 s for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.

  • First Contentful Paint: 2.4 s

    2.4 s

    The first text or image appears after 2.4 s on a phone. Good is under 1.8 s.

  • Speed Index: 4.4 s

    4.4 s

    Visually, the page fills in at 4.4 s (Speed Index). Good is under 3.4 s.

  • Largest Contentful Paint: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    Your largest element takes 2.6 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image. Most of its time is resource load delay (1.8 s).

  • 1 image without width and height

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

  • Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors

    0%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 282 ms to 281 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

  • Largest content (LCP) held steady for real visitors

    +3%

    Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-03, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 1.1 s to 1.1 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).

7 checks passed
  • Real-user LCP: 1.9 s

    1.9 s

    Real visitors wait 1.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.

  • Real-user INP: 23 ms

    23 ms

    Real visitors wait 23 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.

  • Real-user CLS: 0.00

    0.00

    For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.

  • Real-user FCP: 1.8 s

    1.8 s

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

  • Time to Interactive: 2.6 s

    2.6 s

    The page is fully interactive after 2.6 s.

  • Cumulative Layout Shift: 0

    0

    The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).

  • Total Blocking Time: 0 ms

    0 ms

    Scripts block the page for only 0 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.

Images and page weight

100
  • 1 image in older formats

    1 image (40 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 0.02 g of CO₂ per visit

    0.02 g

    By the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.02 g of CO₂e: 2.6 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.

3 checks passed
  • Page weight: 77 KiB in 8 requests

    77 KiB

    Your homepage downloads 77 KiB in 8 requests on a phone: images 41 KiB (2), scripts 21 KiB (2) and stylesheets 12 KiB (2). That is a lean page.

  • 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

7 to fixGoogle 4669
  • 1 text element with low contrast

    1 text element doesn't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.

  • <html> element must have a lang attribute (1 element)

    <html> element must have a lang attribute: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated serious by axe-core.

  • 13 images without alt text

    13 images have no alt text, which hurts accessibility and image search.

  • No main landmark

    The page has no <main> landmark, so screen-reader users cannot jump straight to the content.

  • Zoom is disabled

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

  • Page should contain a level-one heading (1 element)

    Page should contain a level-one heading: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

  • All page content should be contained by landmarks (1 element)

    All page content should be contained by landmarks: 1 element on the page fails this check, rated moderate by axe-core.

1 checks passed
  • 9 automated accessibility rules passed

    axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 16 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 9 passed and 7 failed. 2 mores need a person to judge. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.

SEO

6 to fixGoogle 9275
  • Title is short (2 characters)

    Your title is only 2 characters: “豆瓣”. 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 (36 characters)

    Your meta description is only 36 characters: “提供图书、电影、音乐唱片的推荐、评论和价格比较,以及城市独特的文化生活。”. 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 social preview image

    No Open Graph image (also missing: og:title, og:description), so links shared on LinkedIn, Slack or Facebook show no preview picture.

  • No favicon declared

    No favicon is declared in the HTML, so browser tabs and Google's mobile results may show a generic icon.

  • No X (Twitter) card tag

    No twitter:card tag. X falls back to Open Graph, which is incomplete here.

  • 146 internal links, 273 external

    The homepage links to 146 pages on douban.com and 273 external pages.

3 checks passed
  • One H1 headline

    Your main headline reads: “豆瓣”.

  • robots.txt in place

    robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.

  • XML sitemap found

    Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.douban.com/sitemap_index.xml.

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.douban.com/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.

Other pages

2 to fix90
  • 4 pages without a meta description

    https://www.douban.com/location, https://www.douban.com/club/212239445/articles, https://www.douban.com/explore and https://www.douban.com/people/xy1009 have no meta description, so Google writes the search snippet from whatever text it finds.

  • 3 pages without an H1

    https://www.douban.com/doubanapp/app, https://www.douban.com/club/212239445/articles and https://www.douban.com/explore have no <h1> headline, so visitors and search engines get no clear main topic.

  • 7 pages with very little text

    https://www.douban.com/location, https://www.douban.com/group, https://www.douban.com/doubanapp/app, https://www.douban.com/gallery, https://www.douban.com/club/212239445/articles and https://www.douban.com/explore and 1 other have under 150 words in the HTML. Thin pages rarely rank; if the text loads with JavaScript, crawlers that don't run it see even less.

  • 5 pages slow to respond

    https://www.douban.com/location, https://www.douban.com/group, https://www.douban.com/doubanapp/app, https://www.douban.com/gallery and https://www.douban.com/people/xy1009 took over 3 s to send their HTML from our server.

  • 15 internal pages checked

    We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage (of 89 found) and read each the way a search engine does.

5 checks passed
  • Linked pages load

    7 pages of 15 loaded without an error (the rest turned automated requests away).

  • Canonical URLs point to themselves

    No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.

  • Titles are unique

    Every page we checked has its own title.

  • No linked page is hidden from search

    None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.

  • Every page has a title

    All 7 pages that loaded have a <title>.

Best practices

3 to fixGoogle 8161
  • No mobile viewport

    No viewport meta tag, so phones render the desktop layout zoomed out.

  • 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.”).

  • 3 JavaScript errors while loading

    3 errors were logged to the browser console while the page loaded, for example “Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://img3.doubanio.com/f/talion/ccac7805cc6b1c2680aff3b58d94ec133f640df6/css/card/base.…”.

Content and conversion

5 to fix43
  • 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 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 1 words

    The homepage has only about 1 words of visible text; thin pages give Google and first-time buyers little to go on.

  • 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.

2 checks passed
  • 1 short form

    A short form (1 field at most) is right on the homepage.

  • Analytics in place

    Analytics detected: Google Analytics and Matomo.

Privacy and tracking

  • 4 cookies set on arrival

    4

    Opening the homepage sets 4 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.

  • 2 other companies contacted

    Loading the homepage contacts 2 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.

1 checks passed
  • No known trackers before consent

    No known advertising or analytics trackers load before a visitor clicks anything (measured from a US location before any click).

Security, domain, email and software versions

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