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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

houses.com

Houses.com - Homes for Sale, Houses for Rent, Real Estate

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

20 ms

Resources Loaded

878 ms

Page Rendered

331 ms

houses.com screenshot

About Website

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

With the acquisition of the Houses.com domain name, CoStar Group sets the stage for its entry into residential real estate.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houses.com page load time and found that the first response time was 20 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houses.com performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houses.com

20 ms

www.houses.com

154 ms

adsbygoogle.js

19 ms

gpt.js

19 ms

piwik.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Houses.com, 14% (9 requests) were made to Cdn2.condo.com and 13% (8 requests) were made to Tag.crsspxl.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (321 ms) relates to the external source Google-analytics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (25%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houses.com main page is 5.0 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 61.4 kB

  • Original 73.1 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.6 kB, which is 24% 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 61.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Houses images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 771.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 366.1 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 771.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 391.8 kB

  • Original 447.1 kB
  • After minification 446.8 kB
  • After compression 55.3 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. Houses.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 391.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (51%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houses. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

houses.com

houses.com

20 ms

www.houses.com

www.houses.com

154 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

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60 ms

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28 ms

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68 ms

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60 ms

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58 ms

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43 ms

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321 ms

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314 ms

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238 ms

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237 ms

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232 ms

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117 ms

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105 ms

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90 ms

Accessibility Review

houses.com accessibility score

95

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.

Best Practices

houses.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

houses.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 Houses.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 Houses.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

houses.com

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