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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

costhelper.com

CostHelper - Everyone Should get a Fair Price

Page Load Speed

21.1 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

14.4 sec

Page Rendered

6.5 sec

costhelper.com screenshot

About Website

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CostHelper - Learn how much hard-to-price goods and services should cost -- from painting a house or repairing a car windshield to hiring wedding photographers, CostHelper provides information so peop...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Costhelper.com page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 20.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

costhelper.com performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value550 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

costhelper.com

226 ms

www.costhelper.com

463 ms

ga.js

201 ms

spacer.gif

217 ms

brand

264 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Costhelper.com, 47% (24 requests) were made to Imcd.costhelper.com and 14% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 297.7 kB (53%)

Content Size

565.5 kB

After Optimization

267.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Costhelper.com main page is 565.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 407.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 35.9 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 45.1 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 35.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 112.6 kB
  • After minification 104.7 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. Cost Helper images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 254.0 kB

  • Original 407.3 kB
  • After minification 406.7 kB
  • After compression 153.3 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 254.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (35%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cost Helper. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

costhelper.com

costhelper.com

226 ms

www.costhelper.com

www.costhelper.com

463 ms

ga.js

ga.js

201 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

217 ms

brand

brand

264 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

194 ms

costhelper-nm.gif

costhelper-nm.gif

195 ms

central-air-conditioner.jpg

central-air-conditioner.jpg

257 ms

swimming-lessons.jpg

swimming-lessons.jpg

221 ms

backpacking-equipment.jpg

backpacking-equipment.jpg

254 ms

gas-grill.jpg

gas-grill.jpg

252 ms

blackline.gif

blackline.gif

252 ms

rss-feed.gif

rss-feed.gif

498 ms

7-ways-to-trim-pet-expenses.jpg

7-ways-to-trim-pet-expenses.jpg

495 ms

dont-forget-taxes-insurance-in-home-addition-budget-2.jpg

dont-forget-taxes-insurance-in-home-addition-budget-2.jpg

495 ms

appliances.gif

appliances.gif

495 ms

children.gif

children.gif

893 ms

cars.gif

cars.gif

836 ms

electronics.gif

electronics.gif

439 ms

health.gif

health.gif

835 ms

home.gif

home.gif

835 ms

personalfinance.gif

personalfinance.gif

835 ms

pets.gif

pets.gif

835 ms

activities.gif

activities.gif

838 ms

education.gif

education.gif

836 ms

smallbusiness.gif

smallbusiness.gif

837 ms

fitness.gif

fitness.gif

836 ms

travel.gif

travel.gif

836 ms

weddings.gif

weddings.gif

835 ms

brand

brand

1702 ms

all.js

all.js

1667 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

657 ms

googlelogo_lightgrey_46x16dp.png

googlelogo_lightgrey_46x16dp.png

2387 ms

687 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

1532 ms

button.3ccb64e61d4c01fae12cd2b0ed9b2bab.js

button.3ccb64e61d4c01fae12cd2b0ed9b2bab.js

2361 ms

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0sTQzbapM8j.js

964 ms

0sTQzbapM8j.js

0sTQzbapM8j.js

2251 ms

like.php

like.php

1546 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

1214 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_1

cb=gapi.loaded_1

1501 ms

fastbutton

fastbutton

1843 ms

0zf7krTbbuX.js

0zf7krTbbuX.js

3372 ms

lH1ibRl5GKq.png

lH1ibRl5GKq.png

3175 ms

follow_button.f8c8d971a6ac545cf416e3c1ad4bbc65.en.html

follow_button.f8c8d971a6ac545cf416e3c1ad4bbc65.en.html

956 ms

rs=AGLTcCOUSJIRFuWfIxRmYNF0NPW_T9054A

rs=AGLTcCOUSJIRFuWfIxRmYNF0NPW_T9054A

627 ms

jot

jot

1915 ms

postmessageRelay

postmessageRelay

1693 ms

971028622-postmessagerelay.js

971028622-postmessagerelay.js

269 ms

rpc:shindig_random.js

rpc:shindig_random.js

212 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

51 ms

Accessibility Review

costhelper.com accessibility score

59

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

costhelper.com best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

costhelper.com SEO score

83

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Costhelper.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 Costhelper.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

costhelper.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cost Helper. 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: