Report Summary

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hints.com

www.Hints.com home of helpful Hints, Products + Consulting

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

127 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hints.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hints.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

hints.com

1856 ms

www.hints.com

397 ms

style.css

104 ms

forum2ov.gif

85 ms

store2ov.gif

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hints.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Hints.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.4 kB (65%)

Content Size

41.9 kB

After Optimization

14.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Hints.com main page is 41.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 31.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 26.4 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 4.9 kB, which is 16% 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 26.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 715 B

  • Original 9.8 kB
  • After minification 9.1 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. Hints images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 557 B

  • Original 782 B
  • After minification 641 B
  • After compression 225 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. Hints.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 557 B or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (79%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hints. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

hints.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hints.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 Hints.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hints. 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: