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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

kurkhomes.com

Greater Houston & TX Hill Country Custom Home Builder Kurk Homes

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

42 ms

Resources Loaded

935 ms

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

Visit kurkhomes.com now to see the best up-to-date Kurk Homes content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about kurkhomes.com

Kurk Homes is a build-on-your-lot custom home builder in the Greater Houston & Hill Country areas specializing in designing & building dream homes with a 20-year warranty.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kurkhomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 42 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kurkhomes.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

90/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

60/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value590 ms

50/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kurkhomes.com

42 ms

www.kurkhomes.com

126 ms

main.css

19 ms

css2

72 ms

typekit.load.js

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Kurkhomes.com, 22% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (658 ms) belongs to the original domain Kurkhomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 54.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

815.8 kB

After Optimization

761.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kurkhomes.com main page is 815.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 695.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 57.7 kB
  • After minification 50.6 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.1 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 47.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 695.8 kB
  • After minification 693.6 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. Kurk Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 50.0 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 46.8 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 12.3 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. Kurkhomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (42%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kurk 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 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

kurkhomes.com accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

kurkhomes.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

kurkhomes.com SEO score

92

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

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 Kurkhomes.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 Kurkhomes.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 data is detected on the main page of Kurk Homes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: