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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

cedarstonehomes.com

Cedarstone Homes - New Homes in Ottawa and Richmond

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cedarstonehomes.com homepage info - get ready to check Cedarstone Homes best content right away, or after learning these important things about cedarstonehomes.com

Cedarstone Homes is your builder of choice in Richmond, bringing 32 years of expertise, exceptional craftsmanship and personalized service to every home we build.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cedarstonehomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cedarstonehomes.com performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cedarstonehomes.com

1263 ms

gtm.js

125 ms

main.css

124 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

183 ms

fonts.css

267 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Cedarstonehomes.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Cedarstonehomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 420.0 kB (47%)

Content Size

893.3 kB

After Optimization

473.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cedarstonehomes.com main page is 893.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 767.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 14.6 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 11.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 387.4 kB

  • Original 767.2 kB
  • After minification 379.8 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, Cedarstone Homes needs image optimization as it can save up to 387.4 kB or 50% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 74.5 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 11.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. Cedarstonehomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 40% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cedarstone 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cedarstonehomes.com

cedarstonehomes.com

1263 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

125 ms

main.css

main.css

124 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

183 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

267 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

367 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

453 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

606 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

689 ms

main.js

main.js

768 ms

jquery.Home.js

jquery.Home.js

850 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js

930 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

1011 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1094 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

27 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

62 ms

header-bkg.jpg

header-bkg.jpg

110 ms

logo.png

logo.png

179 ms

nav-active.gif

nav-active.gif

115 ms

fb-icon-header.jpg

fb-icon-header.jpg

107 ms

twitter-icon-header.jpg

twitter-icon-header.jpg

114 ms

mail-icon-header.jpg

mail-icon-header.jpg

112 ms

share-icon-header.jpg

share-icon-header.jpg

198 ms

darker-pattern.gif

darker-pattern.gif

194 ms

carousel-tarion-award.png

carousel-tarion-award.png

501 ms

carousel-custom-home.png

carousel-custom-home.png

691 ms

Carosel-living-exterior-night-lg.png

Carosel-living-exterior-night-lg.png

1053 ms

footer-bkg.gif

footer-bkg.gif

489 ms

footer-divider.gif

footer-divider.gif

489 ms

icon-facebook-small.png

icon-facebook-small.png

487 ms

GOHBA_Logo_Reversed.svg

GOHBA_Logo_Reversed.svg

588 ms

fb-icon.jpg

fb-icon.jpg

585 ms

twitter-icon.jpg

twitter-icon.jpg

587 ms

mail-icon.jpg

mail-icon.jpg

1229 ms

share-icon.jpg

share-icon.jpg

662 ms

houzz-icon.jpg

houzz-icon.jpg

669 ms

double-hor-line.gif

double-hor-line.gif

672 ms

21AE41_0_0.woff

21AE41_0_0.woff

751 ms

collect

collect

29 ms

js

js

62 ms

print.css

print.css

82 ms

Accessibility Review

cedarstonehomes.com accessibility score

77

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cedarstonehomes.com best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cedarstonehomes.com SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8852-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cedarstonehomes.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 Cedarstonehomes.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8852-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

cedarstonehomes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cedarstone Homes. 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: