Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

empirecommunities.com

Empire Communities | Building New Homes and Communities in North America

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

81 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Empirecommunities.com page load time and found that the first response time was 81 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

empirecommunities.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.525

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

empirecommunities.com

81 ms

www.empirecommunities.com

552 ms

gtm.js

94 ms

analytics.js

50 ms

style.min.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Empirecommunities.com, 24% (15 requests) were made to D2iky3nml0k5ew.cloudfront.net and 5% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (552 ms) belongs to the original domain Empirecommunities.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

721.8 kB

After Optimization

656.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Empirecommunities.com main page is 721.8 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. 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. Javascripts take 588.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 59.1 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 47.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 713 B

  • Original 1.8 kB
  • After minification 1.1 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, Empire Communities needs image optimization as it can save up to 713 B or 40% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 588.4 kB
  • After minification 588.4 kB
  • After compression 584.6 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

-18%

Potential reduce by 12.8 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 59.6 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. Empirecommunities.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.8 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (83%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Empire Communities. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

empirecommunities.com accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

empirecommunities.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

SEO Factors

empirecommunities.com SEO score

92

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

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 Empirecommunities.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 Empirecommunities.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: