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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

firstchoice-homes.com

Home Builder in Saint Charles, MN | First Choice Homes

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

183 ms

Resources Loaded

625 ms

Page Rendered

264 ms

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About Website

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

First Choice Homes, LLC is a panelized home builder located in Saint Charles, MN. We build homes throughout Southeast Minnesota.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Firstchoice-homes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 183 ms and then it took 889 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

firstchoice-homes.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.329

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.firstchoice-homes.com

183 ms

standard_styles.css

64 ms

bootstrap-combined.min.css

45 ms

flexslider.css

54 ms

font-awesome.css

52 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Firstchoice-homes.com, 38% (12 requests) were made to Unitedstatesbd.com and 9% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (341 ms) relates to the external source Wickbuildings.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

875.2 kB

After Optimization

803.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Firstchoice-homes.com main page is 875.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 646.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 48.0 kB

  • Original 157.8 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 109.8 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 48.0 kB or 30% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 646.8 kB
  • After minification 636.3 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. First Choice Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 50.7 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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 9.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 4.3 kB

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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. Firstchoice-homes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.3 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (48%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of First Choice 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 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

www.firstchoice-homes.com

www.firstchoice-homes.com

183 ms

standard_styles.css

standard_styles.css

64 ms

bootstrap-combined.min.css

bootstrap-combined.min.css

45 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

54 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

52 ms

css

css

44 ms

webCustomCss.css

webCustomCss.css

61 ms

key-trans-150tall.png

key-trans-150tall.png

76 ms

Copy-of-IMG_8306.jpeg

Copy-of-IMG_8306.jpeg

341 ms

floor-plans1.jpg

floor-plans1.jpg

77 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

25 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

54 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

62 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

42 ms

jQueryCustomTop.js

jQueryCustomTop.js

59 ms

js

js

111 ms

MLS-logo.png

MLS-logo.png

59 ms

slide3.jpg

slide3.jpg

140 ms

slide1.jpg

slide1.jpg

114 ms

contact-us.jpg

contact-us.jpg

178 ms

slide2.jpg

slide2.jpg

98 ms

st-charles.png

st-charles.png

108 ms

key-trans-150tall.png

key-trans-150tall.png

101 ms

floor-plans1.jpg

floor-plans1.jpg

110 ms

MLS-logo.png

MLS-logo.png

120 ms

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31 ms

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40 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

32 ms

wood-trans-bg.png

wood-trans-bg.png

76 ms

main.js

main.js

13 ms

flexslider-icon.woff

flexslider-icon.woff

26 ms

Accessibility Review

firstchoice-homes.com accessibility score

90

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

firstchoice-homes.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

firstchoice-homes.com SEO score

89

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

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 Firstchoice-homes.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 Firstchoice-homes.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

firstchoice-homes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of First Choice 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: