Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 33

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

hownow.net

** HowNow - Everything you need to create and launch your own online school **

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

466 ms

hownow.net screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hownow.net page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 3.1 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

hownow.net performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.226

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hownow.net

17 ms

learnhownow.com

16 ms

gethownow.com

69 ms

www.gethownow.com

1238 ms

hownow-staging.27c3aa98a.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Hownow.net, 52% (74 requests) were made to Assets-global.website-files.com and 11% (16 requests) were made to Assets.website-files.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Gethownow.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 197.7 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Hownow.net main page is 1.5 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. 85% 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 900.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 209 B

  • Original 559 B
  • After minification 559 B
  • After compression 350 B

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 209 B or 37% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 188.1 kB

  • Original 900.4 kB
  • After minification 712.3 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. Obviously, How Now needs image optimization as it can save up to 188.1 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 570.2 kB
  • After minification 570.2 kB
  • After compression 563.1 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 36.3 kB
  • After minification 36.3 kB
  • After compression 34.1 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. Hownow.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (35%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

78

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of How Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hownow.net accessibility score

33

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

hownow.net 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

hownow.net SEO score

73

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hownow.net can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hownow.net 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 Now. 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: