Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

buildabetterhome.org

Build A Better Home - APA – The Engineered Wood Association

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

250 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

Visit buildabetterhome.org now to see the best up-to-date Build A Better Home content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about buildabetterhome.org

Guidelines for builders on construction techniques that prevent moisture infiltration in residential construction.

Visit buildabetterhome.org

Key Findings

We analyzed Buildabetterhome.org page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

buildabetterhome.org performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.075

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildabetterhome.org

250 ms

buildabetterhome

591 ms

jquery-ui.css

104 ms

style-bootstrap.css

328 ms

style-bootstrap-responsive.css

372 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Buildabetterhome.org, 63% (50 requests) were made to Apawood.org and 8% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Apawood.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 861.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildabetterhome.org main page is 3.6 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. 75% 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 181.5 kB

  • Original 222.3 kB
  • After minification 207.7 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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 181.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 258.3 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Build A Better Home images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 78.7 kB

  • Original 329.4 kB
  • After minification 329.2 kB
  • After compression 250.7 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 78.7 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 342.9 kB

  • Original 451.5 kB
  • After minification 447.3 kB
  • After compression 108.6 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. Buildabetterhome.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 342.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (63%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build A Better Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

buildabetterhome.org accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

buildabetterhome.org best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

buildabetterhome.org SEO score

90

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

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 Buildabetterhome.org 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 Buildabetterhome.org 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 Build A Better Home. 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: