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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

mitchellbesthomes.com

Custom Home Builder | MD, VA & DC | Mitchell & Best Next Door

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

144 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

4.7 sec

About Website

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With over 40 years of excellence, Mitchell & Best Next Door has been the trusted brand name in custom homebuilding throughout the Washington D.C. Metro area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mitchellbesthomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 144 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mitchellbesthomes.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,280 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mitchellbesthomes.com

144 ms

www.mitchellbesthomes.com

253 ms

all.css

132 ms

bootstrap.min.css

112 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

343 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Mitchellbesthomes.com, 9% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Pro.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (787 ms) belongs to the original domain Mitchellbesthomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 292.4 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mitchellbesthomes.com main page is 4.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.8 kB

  • Original 71.5 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 12.7 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 20.7 kB, which is 29% 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 58.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 187.8 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Mitchell Best Home S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 511.8 kB
  • After minification 510.9 kB
  • After compression 497.8 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 135.8 kB
  • After minification 127.9 kB
  • After compression 104.0 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. Mitchellbesthomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.8 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (47%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

31

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mitchell Best Home S. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mitchellbesthomes.com accessibility score

89

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mitchellbesthomes.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

mitchellbesthomes.com SEO score

80

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mitchellbesthomes.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 Mitchellbesthomes.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 Mitchell Best Home S. 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: