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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

gorthomes.com

Gort Custom Builder | Custom Home Builder | Custom Home Contractor | New Homes Builder | Home Remodeling Contractor

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

214 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

318 ms

About Website

Welcome to gorthomes.com homepage info - get ready to check Gort Homes best content right away, or after learning these important things about gorthomes.com

Custom home builder and remodeler serving entire chicagoland area. Gort Custom Builders is located in Oak Lawn, IL

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gorthomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 214 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gorthomes.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.8 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gorthomes.com

214 ms

www.gorthomes.com

381 ms

js-image-slider.css

66 ms

js-image-slider.js

131 ms

styles.css

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Gorthomes.com, 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (931 ms) belongs to the original domain Gorthomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 41.8 kB (1%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gorthomes.com main page is 6.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 11.1 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.9 kB, which is 17% 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 8.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 6.0 MB
  • After minification 6.0 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. Gort Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 184.0 kB
  • After minification 184.0 kB
  • After compression 172.3 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 78.3 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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. Gorthomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 17.8 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (17%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gort 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gorthomes.com accessibility score

64

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

gorthomes.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gorthomes.com SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gorthomes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gorthomes.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 description is not detected on the main page of Gort Homes. 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: