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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

bracehomes.com

Brace Homes - Grand Rapids Real Estate by Mark Brace

Page Load Speed

17.7 sec in total

First Response

346 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

13.4 sec

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About Website

Visit bracehomes.com now to see the best up-to-date Brace Homes content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bracehomes.com

Brace Homes - Grand Rapids Real Estate by Mark Brace at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices MI - A Top Realtor Team in West Michigan

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bracehomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 346 ms and then it took 17.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bracehomes.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.361

30/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bracehomes.com

346 ms

awp.js

344 ms

xfbml.customerchat.js

127 ms

agent

153 ms

fbevents.js

192 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Bracehomes.com, 45% (50 requests) were made to Api.curaytor.io and 10% (11 requests) were made to D.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Api.curaytor.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (22%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

6.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bracehomes.com main page is 8.1 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 7.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 132.4 kB

  • Original 166.0 kB
  • After minification 164.0 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 132.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 7.5 MB
  • After minification 6.0 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. Obviously, Brace Homes needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.5 MB or 19% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 179.4 kB

  • Original 425.3 kB
  • After minification 425.3 kB
  • After compression 246.0 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 179.4 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 10.5 kB
  • After minification 10.5 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. Bracehomes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (35%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

59

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brace 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 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bracehomes.com

www.bracehomes.com

346 ms

awp.js

awp.js

344 ms

xfbml.customerchat.js

xfbml.customerchat.js

127 ms

agent

agent

153 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

192 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

232 ms

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229 ms

css

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150 ms

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818 ms

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1172 ms

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1130 ms

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1130 ms

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1199 ms

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1226 ms

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config

config

86 ms

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53 ms

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108 ms

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84 ms

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87 ms

roundtrip.js

roundtrip.js

131 ms

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89 ms

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1015 ms

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996 ms

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1077 ms

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90 ms

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81 ms

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90 ms

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285 ms

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166 ms

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2156 ms

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439 ms

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272 ms

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393 ms

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44 ms

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20 ms

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Accessibility Review

bracehomes.com accessibility score

70

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

bracehomes.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

bracehomes.com SEO score

85

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

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

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 Bracehomes.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 Bracehomes.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

bracehomes.com

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