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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

htpcbuild.com

HTPC Build - Learn how to build a Home Theater Personal Computer

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

731 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Htpcbuild.com page load time and found that the first response time was 731 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

htpcbuild.com performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,550 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

htpcbuild.com

731 ms

style.css

298 ms

style.php

553 ms

adsbygoogle.js

173 ms

jquery.min.js

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Htpcbuild.com, 12% (13 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 11% (12 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Htpcbuild.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

845.4 kB

After Optimization

754.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Htpcbuild.com main page is 845.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 603.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 69.0 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 82.3 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 69.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 151.9 kB
  • After minification 134.0 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. Obviously, HTPC Build needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 603.0 kB
  • After minification 602.9 kB
  • After compression 599.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 6.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (62%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HTPC Build. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

htpcbuild.com accessibility score

84

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

htpcbuild.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

htpcbuild.com SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Htpcbuild.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Htpcbuild.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 HTPC Build. 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: