Report Summary

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blogs.hgtv.com

HGTV's Decorating & Design Blog | HGTV

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

336 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

384 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.hgtv.com page load time and found that the first response time was 336 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.hgtv.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

blogs.hgtv.com

336 ms

index.html

92 ms

get-cooking-fine-living-fans.html

152 ms

config.js

47 ms

librarymanager.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blogs.hgtv.com, 21% (27 requests) were made to Cookingchanneltv.com and 12% (15 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (348 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (69%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

734.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Blogs.hgtv.com main page is 2.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 120.9 kB

  • Original 145.7 kB
  • After minification 120.2 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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 25.5 kB, which is 17% 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 120.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 163.7 kB
  • After minification 155.4 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. Blog S HGTV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 510.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 190.7 kB

  • Original 234.2 kB
  • After minification 227.9 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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. Blogs.hgtv.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (70%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog S HGTV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

blogs.hgtv.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.hgtv.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Blogs.hgtv.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 data is detected on the main page of Blog S HGTV. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: