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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

homehandyman.co.za

Do It Yourself | The Home Handyman magazine

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

122 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

71 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Home Handyman content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about homehandyman.co.za

The Home Handyman; the only DIY magazine catering for the spectrum of home improvers, DIY enthusiats and woodworkers in southern Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homehandyman.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 122 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homehandyman.co.za performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,210 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.homehandyman.co.za

122 ms

minified.js

67 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

114 ms

polyfill.min.js

815 ms

thunderbolt-commons.d1a46914.bundle.min.js

105 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Homehandyman.co.za, 44% (28 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 31% (20 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 517.6 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

676.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Homehandyman.co.za 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 474.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 351.0 kB

  • Original 474.1 kB
  • After minification 472.5 kB
  • After compression 123.1 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 351.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 317.4 kB
  • After minification 303.8 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. Home Handyman images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 153.0 kB

  • Original 402.8 kB
  • After minification 402.8 kB
  • After compression 249.8 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 153.0 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (25%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.homehandyman.co.za

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122 ms

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67 ms

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114 ms

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815 ms

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105 ms

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105 ms

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104 ms

lodash.min.js

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103 ms

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109 ms

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108 ms

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106 ms

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107 ms

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308 ms

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Accessibility Review

homehandyman.co.za accessibility score

94

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

homehandyman.co.za 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

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

homehandyman.co.za 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homehandyman.co.za 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 Homehandyman.co.za 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

homehandyman.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Home Handyman. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: