Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

thefamilyhandyman.com

The Family Handyman | Do it Yourself Home Improvement: Home Repair

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

861 ms

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefamilyhandyman.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 2.9 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

thefamilyhandyman.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.479

18/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefamilyhandyman.com

31 ms

www.familyhandyman.com

45 ms

www.familyhandyman.com

96 ms

homepage-2022.css

79 ms

header.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thefamilyhandyman.com, 76% (114 requests) were made to Familyhandyman.com and 9% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (360 ms) relates to the external source Familyhandyman.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 175.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Thefamilyhandyman.com main page is 3.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 170.4 kB

  • Original 218.3 kB
  • After minification 209.1 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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 170.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 983 B

  • Original 2.6 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. The Family Handyman images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 326.4 kB
  • After minification 326.4 kB
  • After compression 322.7 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 238 B

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 73.0 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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. Thefamilyhandyman.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (45%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

72

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Family Handyman. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thefamilyhandyman.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thefamilyhandyman.com best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the notification permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thefamilyhandyman.com SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Thefamilyhandyman.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 Thefamilyhandyman.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 The Family Handyman. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: