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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

link.popularmechanics.com

Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology

Page Load Speed

820 ms in total

First Response

241 ms

Resources Loaded

570 ms

Page Rendered

9 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Link.popularmechanics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 241 ms and then it took 579 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

link.popularmechanics.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

35/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.popularmechanics.com

241 ms

polyfills-78c92fac7aa8fdd8.js

217 ms

otSDKStub.js

287 ms

moapt-data.js

286 ms

moapt-bundle-hdm.js

215 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Link.popularmechanics.com, 34% (47 requests) were made to Popularmechanics.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (383 ms) relates to the external source Popularmechanics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 501.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

4.4 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Link.popularmechanics.com main page is 4.4 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 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 483.0 kB

  • Original 593.6 kB
  • After minification 593.6 kB
  • After compression 110.5 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 483.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Link Popular Mechanics images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 464.1 kB
  • After minification 464.1 kB
  • After compression 451.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (32%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

94

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Link Popular Mechanics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

link.popularmechanics.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

link.popularmechanics.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

link.popularmechanics.com SEO score

100

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

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 Link.popularmechanics.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 Link.popularmechanics.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 Link Popular Mechanics. 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: