Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

howjsay.com

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Page Load Speed

45.9 sec in total

First Response

967 ms

Resources Loaded

40.7 sec

Page Rendered

4.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howjsay.com page load time and found that the first response time was 967 ms and then it took 44.9 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

howjsay.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.5 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howjsay.com

967 ms

howjsay2.css

504 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

553 ms

jsapi

282 ms

plusone.js

938 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Howjsay.com, 17% (11 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 14% (9 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.1 sec) relates to the external source Pixel.everesttech.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 914.2 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

652.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Howjsay.com main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 33.9 kB
  • After minification 32.6 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 24.8 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 462 B

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 96.9 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. Howjsay images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 886.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 545.7 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 886.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 496 B

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. Howjsay.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (72%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howjsay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howjsay.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

howjsay.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

howjsay.com 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 Howjsay.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 Howjsay.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 Howjsay. 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: