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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

computer.howstuffworks.com

Computer | HowStuffWorks

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

21 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

587 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Computer.howstuffworks.com page load time and found that the first response time was 21 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

computer.howstuffworks.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,110 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.2 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

computer.howstuffworks.com

21 ms

base.min.js

11 ms

amzn_ads.js

7 ms

landing-page.min.css

26 ms

bootstrap.min.js

5 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Computer.howstuffworks.com, 16% (17 requests) were made to Morestuff-logging.stuff.com and 12% (13 requests) were made to Us-u.openx.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (712 ms) relates to the external source Ox-d.hsw.servedbyopenx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 593.9 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

562.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Computer.howstuffworks.com main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 567.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 93.9 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 117.3 kB
  • After compression 26.2 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 93.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 311.3 kB
  • After minification 310.0 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. Computer How Stuff Works images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 370.3 kB

  • Original 567.2 kB
  • After minification 567.1 kB
  • After compression 196.9 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 370.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 128.4 kB

  • Original 157.6 kB
  • After minification 157.5 kB
  • After compression 29.3 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. Computer.howstuffworks.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 128.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 51 (61%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Computer How Stuff Works. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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computer.howstuffworks.com

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6 ms

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31 ms

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86 ms

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80 ms

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74 ms

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51 ms

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137 ms

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27 ms

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85 ms

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50 ms

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fbevents.js

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44 ms

ads

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170 ms

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38 ms

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24 ms

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28 ms

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27 ms

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47 ms

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19 ms

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21 ms

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18 ms

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320 ms

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403 ms

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56 ms

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7 ms

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19 ms

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5 ms

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27 ms

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45 ms

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47 ms

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43 ms

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73 ms

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5 ms

Accessibility Review

computer.howstuffworks.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

computer.howstuffworks.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

computer.howstuffworks.com SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Computer.howstuffworks.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 Computer.howstuffworks.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

computer.howstuffworks.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Computer How Stuff Works. 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: