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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

instructables.com

Yours for the making - Instructables

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

47 ms

Resources Loaded

824 ms

Page Rendered

742 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Instructables.com page load time and found that the first response time was 47 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

instructables.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,240 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.7 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.instructables.com

47 ms

global_desktop_bs2_css.min.css

14 ms

global.css

249 ms

home.css

246 ms

reactapp.js

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Instructables.com, 29% (6 requests) were made to Content.instructables.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (396 ms) belongs to the original domain Instructables.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 114.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Instructables.com main page is 1.9 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 124.6 kB
  • After minification 120.5 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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 96.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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. Instructables images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 185 B

  • Original 32.1 kB
  • After minification 32.1 kB
  • After compression 31.9 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. Instructables.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Instructables. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.instructables.com

www.instructables.com

47 ms

global_desktop_bs2_css.min.css

global_desktop_bs2_css.min.css

14 ms

global.css

global.css

249 ms

home.css

home.css

246 ms

reactapp.js

reactapp.js

97 ms

instructables-logo-2023.svg

instructables-logo-2023.svg

20 ms

pixel.png

pixel.png

25 ms

autodesk-logo-primary-white.png

autodesk-logo-primary-white.png

98 ms

FNBVLKFLOOCDOC0.jpg

FNBVLKFLOOCDOC0.jpg

172 ms

F7NMVG7LQXSG5KO.jpg

F7NMVG7LQXSG5KO.jpg

113 ms

FI60KMALQXSG5MS.jpg

FI60KMALQXSG5MS.jpg

178 ms

FLW4SS8LQXSG5KM.jpg

FLW4SS8LQXSG5KM.jpg

152 ms

FVRA9BVLQXSG5OR.png

FVRA9BVLQXSG5OR.png

172 ms

FAZCF6HLQXSG5KN.jpg

FAZCF6HLQXSG5KN.jpg

185 ms

robot-category-sprite.png

robot-category-sprite.png

298 ms

utag.js

utag.js

126 ms

myriad-pro-normal-700.woff

myriad-pro-normal-700.woff

396 ms

myriad-pro-normal-600.woff

myriad-pro-normal-600.woff

103 ms

myriad-pro-normal-400.woff

myriad-pro-normal-400.woff

386 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

38 ms

ible-categories.ttf

ible-categories.ttf

17 ms

Accessibility Review

instructables.com accessibility score

85

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

instructables.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

SEO Factors

instructables.com SEO score

86

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

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 Instructables.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 Instructables.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 Instructables. 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: