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handyman.com

Handyman.com The #1 Source to find a Local, Professional, Licensed, Screened Handyman

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

429 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

399 ms

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Handyman.com page load time and found that the first response time was 429 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

handyman.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

handyman.com

429 ms

jquery.min.js

54 ms

bootstrap.min.js

52 ms

global.js

47 ms

bootstrap.min.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 8% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Handyman.com, 12% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 12% (7 requests) were made to Tools.contrib.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (960 ms) relates to the external source Rdbuploads.s3.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (44%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Handyman.com main page is 2.4 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 979.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 157.5 kB

  • Original 213.0 kB
  • After minification 200.4 kB
  • After compression 55.5 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 157.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 53.2 kB

  • Original 979.3 kB
  • After minification 926.1 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. Handyman images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 607.8 kB

  • Original 924.1 kB
  • After minification 901.9 kB
  • After compression 316.4 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 607.8 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 234.3 kB

  • Original 286.3 kB
  • After minification 258.3 kB
  • After compression 52.0 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. Handyman.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 234.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (64%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Handyman. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

handyman.com

handyman.com

429 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

54 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

52 ms

global.js

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47 ms

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52 ms

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52 ms

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32 ms

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92 ms

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46 ms

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32 ms

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89 ms

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38 ms

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53 ms

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519 ms

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89 ms

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173 ms

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86 ms

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960 ms

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54 ms

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42 ms

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41 ms

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40 ms

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39 ms

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685 ms

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19 ms

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7 ms

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35 ms

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57 ms

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5 ms

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154 ms

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215 ms

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86 ms

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102 ms

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178 ms

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256 ms

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228 ms

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477 ms

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305 ms

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52 ms

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23 ms

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90 ms

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123 ms

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152 ms

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73 ms

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52 ms

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52 ms

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107 ms

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32 ms

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45 ms

SEO Factors

handyman.com SEO score

0

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 Handyman.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 Handyman.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

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