Report Summary

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    Accessibility

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    Best Practices

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    SEO

Page Load Speed

22.1 sec in total

First Response

4.5 sec

Resources Loaded

17.1 sec

Page Rendered

548 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ihownow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 4.5 sec and then it took 17.6 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

ihownow.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

4490 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

449 ms

style.min.css

686 ms

kk-star-ratings.css

705 ms

frontend.css

709 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Ihownow.com, 28% (36 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) belongs to the original domain Ihownow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 386.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ihownow.com main page is 1.7 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 965.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 256.7 kB

  • Original 293.4 kB
  • After minification 280.0 kB
  • After compression 36.7 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. 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 256.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 93.4 kB

  • Original 965.2 kB
  • After minification 871.8 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. Ihownow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 221.7 kB
  • After minification 221.7 kB
  • After compression 210.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 202.5 kB
  • After minification 202.5 kB
  • After compression 177.3 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. Ihownow.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 25.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (74%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ihownow. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ihownow.com SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ihownow.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Ihownow.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 Ihownow. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: