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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

homesteaddirect.com.au

Your Online Shop - Online Silk Scarves - Homestead Direct

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

About Website

Visit homesteaddirect.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Homestead Direct content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about homesteaddirect.com.au

Homestead Direct is one stop Online Shop. Shop online from the comfort of your own home. We have a huge range of entertaining and gift ideas in our store.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homesteaddirect.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homesteaddirect.com.au performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,820 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homesteaddirect.com.au

264 ms

www.homesteaddirect.com.au

664 ms

jquery.min.js

35 ms

ddsmoothmenu.js

34 ms

jquery-impromptu.3.1.min.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Homesteaddirect.com.au, 10% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (812 ms) belongs to the original domain Homesteaddirect.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 448.5 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homesteaddirect.com.au main page is 1.7 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 856.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 41.6 kB

  • Original 47.8 kB
  • After minification 43.3 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 41.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 50.6 kB

  • Original 856.4 kB
  • After minification 805.8 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. Homestead Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 225.9 kB

  • Original 538.9 kB
  • After minification 507.0 kB
  • After compression 313.0 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 225.9 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 130.3 kB

  • Original 212.1 kB
  • After minification 161.3 kB
  • After compression 81.8 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. Homesteaddirect.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.3 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (61%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homestead Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

homesteaddirect.com.au accessibility score

53

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

[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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

homesteaddirect.com.au best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homesteaddirect.com.au SEO score

69

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

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 Homesteaddirect.com.au 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 Homesteaddirect.com.au 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 Homestead Direct. 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: