Access helpful.com. A big ‘thank you’ to the Helpful community | by daniel debow

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

helpful.com

156 ms

a-big-thank-you-to-the-helpful-community-46ec9380d12b

64 ms

unbound.css

41 ms

manifest.a0175d6a.js

37 ms

54.bea2e5cf.js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Helpful.com, 57% (31 requests) were made to Cdn-client.medium.com and 31% (17 requests) were made to Glyph.medium.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (201 ms) relates to the external source Cdn-client.medium.com.

Content Size

739.0 kB

After Optimization

674.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Helpful.com main page is 739.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 642.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 63.2 kB

Original 86.9 kB
After minification 86.9 kB
After compression 23.7 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 63.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 310 B

Original 8.3 kB
After minification 8.0 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. Helpful images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 726 B

Original 642.7 kB
After minification 642.7 kB
After compression 642.0 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 60 B

Original 1.0 kB
After minification 1.0 kB
After compression 960 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. Helpful.com has all CSS files already compressed.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Helpful. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.