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howtodothings.com

How To Do Things » How To Articles & How To Videos

Page Load Speed

25.9 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

20.6 sec

Page Rendered

5.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howtodothings.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 25.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howtodothings.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

howtodothings.com

90 ms

www.howtodothings.com

92 ms

css_d44cb0bd75784ca54e5b999449a5c239.css

50 ms

js_48dafd99facb73eb126977f182b0fed1.jsmin.js

379 ms

google_service.js

1099 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Howtodothings.com, 35% (17 requests) were made to Htdt-ded-prod.howtodothingsltd.netdna-cdn.com and 14% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 930.9 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

664.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Howtodothings.com main page is 1.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 43.8 kB

  • Original 57.1 kB
  • After minification 52.5 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 43.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 219.1 kB
  • After minification 212.0 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. How To Do Things images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 642.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 382.3 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 642.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 237.9 kB

  • Original 294.9 kB
  • After minification 288.1 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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. Howtodothings.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 237.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (51%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of How To Do Things. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

howtodothings.com SEO score

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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 Howtodothings.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 Howtodothings.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 To Do Things. 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: