Report Summary

  • 73

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

hearthstonehomes.ca

New Homes Norwich, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ayr, Woodstock, Stratford, Ontario | Hearthstone Homes

Page Load Speed

943 ms in total

First Response

267 ms

Resources Loaded

570 ms

Page Rendered

106 ms

About Website

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Hearthstone Homes is an established builder of custom homes building in such locations as Norwich, New Hamburg, Kitchener, Ayr, Woodstock, Waterloo, Stratford.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hearthstonehomes.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 267 ms and then it took 676 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hearthstonehomes.ca performance score

73

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

61/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hearthstonehomes.ca

267 ms

node.css

24 ms

defaults.css

46 ms

system.css

47 ms

system-menus.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Hearthstonehomes.ca, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Browser-update.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (267 ms) belongs to the original domain Hearthstonehomes.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

547.8 kB

After Optimization

494.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Hearthstonehomes.ca main page is 547.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 468.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 14.1 kB
  • After minification 13.6 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 10.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 468.7 kB
  • After minification 433.2 kB

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. Hearthstone Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 50.3 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 14.7 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. Hearthstonehomes.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (73%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hearthstone 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hearthstonehomes.ca accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

hearthstonehomes.ca best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

hearthstonehomes.ca SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hearthstonehomes.ca 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 Hearthstonehomes.ca 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 Hearthstone 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: