Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ihop.com

IHOP® Breakfast, Lunch, & Dinner Restaurants - Pancakes available all-day

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

11 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

540 ms

ihop.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ihop.com page load time and found that the first response time was 11 ms and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ihop.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value45.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.353

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ihop.com

11 ms

en

571 ms

smart-app.banner.min.css

403 ms

21485390620.js

46 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (118 requests) were addressed to the original Ihop.com, 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Ihop.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 822.5 kB (16%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Ihop.com 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. 75% 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 528.7 kB

  • Original 661.7 kB
  • After minification 556.0 kB
  • After compression 133.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 105.7 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 528.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 288.1 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. IHOP images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 307.9 kB
  • After minification 307.9 kB
  • After compression 303.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 812 B

  • Original 156.5 kB
  • After minification 156.5 kB
  • After compression 155.7 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. Ihop.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (73%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IHOP. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 65 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ihop.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

SEO Factors

ihop.com SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ihop.com 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 Ihop.com 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 IHOP. 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: