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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

homeguru.com

HomeGuru

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

54 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeguru.com page load time and found that the first response time was 54 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeguru.com performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.285

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeguru.com

54 ms

www.homeguru.com

76 ms

style-6b586a9f43.css

29 ms

css

175 ms

js

582 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Homeguru.com, 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Snap.licdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.9 kB (33%)

Content Size

294.9 kB

After Optimization

197.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Homeguru.com main page is 294.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 171.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.5 kB

  • Original 55.3 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 44.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 171.8 kB
  • After minification 150.8 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. Obviously, Home Guru needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.0 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 67.9 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 35.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 32.5 kB or 48% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (35%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Guru. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

homeguru.com accessibility score

83

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

homeguru.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

homeguru.com SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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