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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

thesmarthomedoctor.com

The Smart Home Doctor - Education and reviews for the best home automation devices

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

175 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

919 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thesmarthomedoctor.com page load time and found that the first response time was 175 ms and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thesmarthomedoctor.com performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thesmarthomedoctor.com

175 ms

thesmarthomedoctor.com

2690 ms

style.min.css

249 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

188 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

185 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Thesmarthomedoctor.com, 38% (11 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source I0.wp.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 193.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thesmarthomedoctor.com main page is 3.6 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 64.4 kB

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 74.4 kB
  • After compression 15.1 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 64.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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 Smart Home Doctor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 11.6 kB

  • Original 57.9 kB
  • After minification 57.9 kB
  • After compression 46.3 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 11.6 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 117.2 kB

  • Original 188.6 kB
  • After minification 188.4 kB
  • After compression 71.3 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. Thesmarthomedoctor.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (46%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Smart Home Doctor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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thesmarthomedoctor.com

175 ms

thesmarthomedoctor.com

thesmarthomedoctor.com

2690 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

249 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

188 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

185 ms

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187 ms

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189 ms

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297 ms

css

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30 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

386 ms

jquery.min.js

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398 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

315 ms

cookie-law-info-public.js

cookie-law-info-public.js

328 ms

image-cdn.js

image-cdn.js

396 ms

navigation.min.js

navigation.min.js

479 ms

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16 ms

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829 ms

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836 ms

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1521 ms

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688 ms

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656 ms

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635 ms

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1062 ms

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1077 ms

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4137 ms

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2931 ms

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4162 ms

font

font

54 ms

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9 ms

Accessibility Review

thesmarthomedoctor.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

thesmarthomedoctor.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

thesmarthomedoctor.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 Thesmarthomedoctor.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 Thesmarthomedoctor.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Smart Home Doctor. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: