Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

howjoyful.com

HowJoyful - A creative blog for lettering and calligraphy lovers

Page Load Speed

19.9 sec in total

First Response

889 ms

Resources Loaded

17.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

howjoyful.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing How Joyful content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about howjoyful.com

HowJoyful is a creative blog for anyone wanting to start in brush calligraphy & lettering with tutorials & worksheets from Joy Kelley.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howjoyful.com page load time and found that the first response time was 889 ms and then it took 19 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howjoyful.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,780 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.howjoyful.com

889 ms

style.css

132 ms

grid.css

134 ms

layout.css

250 ms

slideshow.css

154 ms

Our browser made a total of 331 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 18% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Howjoyful.com, 10% (32 requests) were made to I947.photobucket.com and 5% (15 requests) were made to Ce.lijit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (15.1 sec) relates to the external source Intagme.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 909.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Howjoyful.com main page is 3.8 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. 80% 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 87.1 kB

  • Original 108.6 kB
  • After minification 104.0 kB
  • After compression 21.4 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 87.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 77.8 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. How Joyful images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 389.1 kB

  • Original 602.4 kB
  • After minification 576.3 kB
  • After compression 213.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 389.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 355.6 kB

  • Original 431.6 kB
  • After minification 391.1 kB
  • After compression 76.0 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. Howjoyful.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 355.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 198 (67%)

Requests Now

295

After Optimization

97

The browser has sent 295 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of How Joyful. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howjoyful.com accessibility score

97

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

howjoyful.com best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

howjoyful.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 Howjoyful.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 Howjoyful.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 How Joyful. 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: