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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

link.popularmechanics.com

Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

40 ms

Resources Loaded

443 ms

Page Rendered

751 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Link.popularmechanics.com page load time and found that the first response time was 40 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

link.popularmechanics.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.popularmechanics.com

40 ms

main.css

94 ms

require-2.1.9.min.js

56 ms

Bootstrap.js

27 ms

blank.png

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Link.popularmechanics.com, 23% (3 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Popularmechanics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (94 ms) relates to the external source Pop.h-cdn.co.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (78%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

298.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Link.popularmechanics.com main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 683.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 202.3 kB

  • Original 247.1 kB
  • After minification 246.7 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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 202.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 367 B

  • Original 974 B
  • After minification 607 B

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, Link Popular Mechanics needs image optimization as it can save up to 367 B or 38% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 484.2 kB

  • Original 683.0 kB
  • After minification 683.0 kB
  • After compression 198.8 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 484.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 361.2 kB

  • Original 415.0 kB
  • After minification 411.4 kB
  • After compression 53.8 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. Link.popularmechanics.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 361.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (57%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Link Popular Mechanics. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.popularmechanics.com

www.popularmechanics.com

40 ms

main.css

main.css

94 ms

require-2.1.9.min.js

require-2.1.9.min.js

56 ms

Bootstrap.js

Bootstrap.js

27 ms

blank.png

blank.png

56 ms

rams.js

rams.js

64 ms

IconFont.woff

IconFont.woff

47 ms

22f5a28a-c43f-43ad-bdf2-c1cb7abff9ec.woff

22f5a28a-c43f-43ad-bdf2-c1cb7abff9ec.woff

47 ms

a43fe47f-004d-4b6d-9a72-23de9e08f66e.woff

a43fe47f-004d-4b6d-9a72-23de9e08f66e.woff

79 ms

b36922ca-d9c5-439b-bdad-22c9b96301e3.woff

b36922ca-d9c5-439b-bdad-22c9b96301e3.woff

79 ms

31367c68-eaf8-4a5c-8094-67ea103f9c82.woff

31367c68-eaf8-4a5c-8094-67ea103f9c82.woff

78 ms

serverComponent.php

serverComponent.php

46 ms

2f2267811c1a229b2dd9f2c7bf5356c1.js

2f2267811c1a229b2dd9f2c7bf5356c1.js

38 ms

Accessibility Review

link.popularmechanics.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

link.popularmechanics.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

link.popularmechanics.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Link.popularmechanics.com 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 Link.popularmechanics.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

link.popularmechanics.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Link Popular Mechanics. 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: