Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

hothardware.com

HotHardware | Computing And Tech Enthusiast News And Product Reviews

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

195 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

381 ms

About Website

Visit hothardware.com now to see the best up-to-date Hot Hardware content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hothardware.com

Hot Hardware was founded over 20 years ago in 1999, and covers computer products, gadget, science and related technology news, along with deep-dive tech product reviews. Its mission is to offer a mix ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hothardware.com page load time and found that the first response time was 195 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hothardware.com performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

87/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.432

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hothardware.com

195 ms

css

27 ms

google_service.js

13 ms

hothardware.com.js

37 ms

google_ads.js

14 ms

Our browser made a total of 178 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (107 requests) were addressed to the original Hothardware.com, 3% (6 requests) were made to I.po.st and 3% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (603 ms) belongs to the original domain Hothardware.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (39%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Hothardware.com main page is 4.8 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 142.0 kB

  • Original 165.8 kB
  • After minification 129.2 kB
  • After compression 23.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 36.6 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 142.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 306.8 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Obviously, Hot Hardware needs image optimization as it can save up to 306.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 949.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 539.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 949.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 466.7 kB

  • Original 540.0 kB
  • After minification 494.9 kB
  • After compression 73.3 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. Hothardware.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 466.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (40%)

Requests Now

168

After Optimization

100

The browser has sent 168 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hot Hardware. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hothardware.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

hothardware.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

hothardware.com SEO score

99

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

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 Hothardware.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 Hothardware.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 description is not detected on the main page of Hot Hardware. 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: