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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

homebuilder.com

Zonda | Housing Market Research Tools | Real Estate Advisors

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

12 ms

Resources Loaded

798 ms

Page Rendered

346 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homebuilder.com page load time and found that the first response time was 12 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homebuilder.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.165

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homebuilder.com

12 ms

homebuilder.com

16 ms

zondahome.com

158 ms

gtm.js

124 ms

rum.min.js

370 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Homebuilder.com, 89% (63 requests) were made to Zondahome.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Pi.pardot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (370 ms) relates to the external source Hit.uptrendsdata.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (31%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homebuilder.com main page is 3.5 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. 80% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 58.3 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. 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 1.1 MB or 95% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Homebuilder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 246.7 kB
  • After minification 246.7 kB
  • After compression 238.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 509 B

  • Original 119.6 kB
  • After minification 119.6 kB
  • After compression 119.1 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. Homebuilder.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (72%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homebuilder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

homebuilder.com accessibility score

94

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

homebuilder.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homebuilder.com SEO score

84

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homebuilder.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 Homebuilder.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 Homebuilder. 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: