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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bosthomes.com

Bost Custom Homes - Luxury Custom Home Builder Serving The Triangle

Page Load Speed

944 ms in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

594 ms

Page Rendered

327 ms

About Website

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Luxury custom home builder serving the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area with a legacy of artistic designs, superb craftsmanship, green building innovations, and client service excellence.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bosthomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 921 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bosthomes.com performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bosthomes.com

23 ms

www.bosthomes.com

205 ms

ionicons.min.css

17 ms

css

35 ms

bundle.css

44 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Bosthomes.com, 47% (28 requests) were made to Bosthomes.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (206 ms) relates to the external source Bosthomes.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 666.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bosthomes.com main page is 5.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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 35.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 39.9 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 4.3 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. Bost Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 441.5 kB

  • Original 649.2 kB
  • After minification 638.3 kB
  • After compression 207.7 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 441.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 150.1 kB

  • Original 181.3 kB
  • After minification 174.8 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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. Bosthomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 150.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (39%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bost Homes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bosthomes.com accessibility score

68

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bosthomes.com best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

bosthomes.com SEO score

93

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

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