Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 0

    Accessibility

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

handymanclub.com

Handyman Club of America - DIY Projects, Ideas, Tool Reviews, Forums - Scout

Page Load Speed

691 ms in total

First Response

145 ms

Resources Loaded

470 ms

Page Rendered

76 ms

handymanclub.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Handyman Club content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about handymanclub.com

Scout's Handyman Club of America is your source for DIY project ideas, how-to guides, tool reviews and more.

Visit handymanclub.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Handymanclub.com page load time and found that the first response time was 145 ms and then it took 546 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

handymanclub.com performance score

0

Network Requests Diagram

handymanclub.com

145 ms

64 ms

151 ms

style.css

41 ms

global.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Handymanclub.com, 43% (6 requests) were made to Assets.247sports.com and 36% (5 requests) were made to S3media.247sports.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (151 ms) relates to the external source 247sports.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 64.7 kB (56%)

Content Size

114.8 kB

After Optimization

50.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Handymanclub.com main page is 114.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 71.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 35.4 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.8 kB, which is 14% 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 31.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 119 B

  • Original 2.7 kB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Handyman Club images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 70.7 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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. Handymanclub.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.0 kB or 47% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (71%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

2

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Handyman Club. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

handymanclub.com SEO score

0

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 Handymanclub.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 Handymanclub.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 Handyman Club. 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: