Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

glhomes.com

GL Homes | New Homes for Sale in Florida

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

85 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

945 ms

About Website

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

Find your new Florida home for sale at GL Homes, one of Florida's largest new home builders. For over 40 years, GL Homes has built quality residences and master planned communities throughout Flor...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glhomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 85 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glhomes.com performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.275

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.glhomes.com

85 ms

www.glhomes.com

432 ms

screen

26 ms

herocarouselblock

43 ms

communitycardblock

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Glhomes.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Script.crazyegg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Glhomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 210.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Glhomes.com main page is 1.8 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 190.4 kB

  • Original 226.7 kB
  • After minification 201.7 kB
  • After compression 36.3 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 25.0 kB, which is 11% 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 190.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. GL Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 251.2 kB
  • After minification 251.1 kB
  • After compression 231.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 124 B

  • Original 367 B
  • After minification 367 B
  • After compression 243 B

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. Glhomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 124 B or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (66%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GL 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 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glhomes.com accessibility score

88

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

glhomes.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

glhomes.com SEO score

92

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 Glhomes.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 Glhomes.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 GL Homes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: