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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

oldhouse.com

Old Houses for Sale, Historic House Photo Archive and Resources - OldHouses.com

Page Load Speed

843 ms in total

First Response

59 ms

Resources Loaded

519 ms

Page Rendered

265 ms

About Website

Welcome to oldhouse.com homepage info - get ready to check Old House best content right away, or after learning these important things about oldhouse.com

OldHouses.com is a resource for old house lovers buying or selling historic real estate properties. We provide listings of historic homes for sale, an old house archive, and old house related resource...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oldhouse.com page load time and found that the first response time was 59 ms and then it took 784 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oldhouse.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.398

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oldhouse.com

59 ms

www.oldhouses.com

114 ms

normalizem.css

31 ms

main.110.css

58 ms

slick.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Oldhouse.com, 71% (27 requests) were made to Oldhouses.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (222 ms) relates to the external source Oldhouses.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.8 kB (38%)

Content Size

681.5 kB

After Optimization

420.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oldhouse.com main page is 681.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 496.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 21.4 kB
  • After minification 20.2 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 15.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 160.6 kB

  • Original 496.0 kB
  • After minification 335.4 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. Obviously, Old House needs image optimization as it can save up to 160.6 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 118.5 kB
  • After minification 114.4 kB
  • After compression 70.2 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 48.3 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. Oldhouse.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (31%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Old House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

oldhouse.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

oldhouse.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

oldhouse.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 Oldhouse.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 Oldhouse.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 Old House. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: