Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

homeaway.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

413 ms

homeaway.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeaway.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 1.5 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

homeaway.co.uk performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

47/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,710 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeaway.co.uk

101 ms

www.homeaway.co.uk

95 ms

www.homeaway.co.uk

270 ms

F81BECC8AACB92D41636F6576F305C-base-pack-homepage-homeaway_uk.css

170 ms

css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Homeaway.co.uk, 41% (11 requests) were made to Csvcus.homeaway.com and 15% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (388 ms) relates to the external source Cms.homeaway.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (67%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

500.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Homeaway.co.uk main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 156.6 kB

  • Original 200.2 kB
  • After minification 167.3 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 32.9 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 156.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 831 B

  • Original 98.7 kB
  • After minification 97.9 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. Homeaway images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 693.0 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 314.4 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 693.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 157.5 kB

  • Original 202.2 kB
  • After minification 199.8 kB
  • After compression 44.8 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. Homeaway.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 157.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (53%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homeaway. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homeaway.co.uk accessibility score

84

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

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Best Practices

homeaway.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

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

homeaway.co.uk SEO score

79

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Homeaway.co.uk 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 Homeaway.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Homeaway. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: