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Visit buildabetterhome.orgWe analyzed Buildabetterhome.org page load time and found that the first response time was 250 ms and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Buildabetterhome.org, 63% (50 requests) were made to Apawood.org and 8% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Apawood.org.
Page size can be reduced by 861.5 kB (24%)
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In fact, the total size of Buildabetterhome.org main page is 3.6 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. 75% 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 181.5 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. 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 181.5 kB or 82% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 258.3 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. Build A Better Home images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 78.7 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 78.7 kB or 24% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 342.9 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. Buildabetterhome.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 342.9 kB or 76% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (63%)
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The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Build A Better Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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buildabetterhome.org accessibility score
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.
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Issue
<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
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Issue
Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
Tables and lists
These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.
Impact
Issue
Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).
List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.
Best practices
These items highlight common accessibility best practices.
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Issue
[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
buildabetterhome.org best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Page has valid source maps
buildabetterhome.org SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
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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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Buildabetterhome.org 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 Buildabetterhome.org 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.
buildabetterhome.org
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Build A Better Home. 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: