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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

homegauge.ca

Homegauge B.C. Ltd. - BC licensed home inspector, home inspections for fernie, elkford, sparwood, cranbrook, kimberley, invermere, windermere, fairmon...

Page Load Speed

801 ms in total

First Response

174 ms

Resources Loaded

465 ms

Page Rendered

162 ms

About Website

Welcome to homegauge.ca homepage info - get ready to check Homegauge best content right away, or after learning these important things about homegauge.ca

BC licensed Home inspector, Home Inspections for fernie, elkford, sparwood, cranbrook, kimberley, invermere, windermere, fairmont hot springs, canal flats, radium hot springs, wasa, fort steele.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homegauge.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 627 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homegauge.ca performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homegauge.ca

174 ms

style.css

26 ms

i.gif

8 ms

counter.js

48 ms

spacer.gif

102 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Homegauge.ca, 3% (1 request) were made to W1.extreme-dm.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S34.sitemeter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (291 ms) belongs to the original domain Homegauge.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

221.0 kB

After Optimization

196.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homegauge.ca main page is 221.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 207.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 12.0 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 9.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 207.7 kB
  • After minification 192.4 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. Homegauge images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 59 B

  • Original 353 B
  • After minification 353 B
  • After compression 294 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. Homegauge.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 59 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (64%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

homegauge.ca accessibility score

57

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.

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

homegauge.ca best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

homegauge.ca SEO score

58

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1250

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homegauge.ca 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 Homegauge.ca main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1250. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Homegauge. 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: