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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

hickorycustomhomes.com

Hickory Custom Homes - Custom Home Builders Hickory, NC

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

658 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

616 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hickorycustomhomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 658 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hickorycustomhomes.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hickorycustomhomes.com

658 ms

style.min.css

137 ms

all.min.css

114 ms

v4-shims.min.css

47 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Hickorycustomhomes.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (658 ms) belongs to the original domain Hickorycustomhomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.2 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hickorycustomhomes.com main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 78.7 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 62.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Hickory Custom Homes images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 95.6 kB
  • After minification 95.4 kB
  • After compression 93.3 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. Hickorycustomhomes.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (80%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hickory Custom 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 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hickorycustomhomes.com

hickorycustomhomes.com

658 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

137 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

114 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

47 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

jquery.bxslider.css

37 ms

2-layout.css

2-layout.css

128 ms

cleantalk-public.min.css

cleantalk-public.min.css

111 ms

formreset.min.css

formreset.min.css

50 ms

formsmain.min.css

formsmain.min.css

66 ms

readyclass.min.css

readyclass.min.css

63 ms

browsers.min.css

browsers.min.css

72 ms

jquery.magnificpopup.min.css

jquery.magnificpopup.min.css

73 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

88 ms

skin-65de74596e16f.css

skin-65de74596e16f.css

95 ms

style.css

style.css

99 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

100 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

117 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

116 ms

apbct-public-bundle.min.js

apbct-public-bundle.min.js

209 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

195 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

130 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

166 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

286 ms

jquery.fitvids.min.js

jquery.fitvids.min.js

149 ms

jquery.bxslider.min.js

jquery.bxslider.min.js

188 ms

2-layout.js

2-layout.js

150 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

151 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

151 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

152 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

152 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

154 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

155 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

178 ms

jquery.maskedinput.min.js

jquery.maskedinput.min.js

164 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

placeholders.jquery.min.js

176 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

284 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

278 ms

jquery.ba-throttle-debounce.min.js

jquery.ba-throttle-debounce.min.js

174 ms

jquery.imagesloaded.min.js

jquery.imagesloaded.min.js

262 ms

jquery.magnificpopup.min.js

jquery.magnificpopup.min.js

337 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

239 ms

theme.min.js

theme.min.js

233 ms

white-rock-logo.png

white-rock-logo.png

60 ms

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141 ms

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142 ms

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143 ms

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Coloured-brick-wall-Sep-texture-1-of-1.jpg

215 ms

unspecified.jpg

unspecified.jpg

276 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

157 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

216 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

261 ms

bx_loader.gif

bx_loader.gif

75 ms

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hickory-custom-homes-e1456442726233.png

279 ms

Accessibility Review

hickorycustomhomes.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

hickorycustomhomes.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

SEO Factors

hickorycustomhomes.com SEO score

85

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 Hickorycustomhomes.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 Hickorycustomhomes.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

hickorycustomhomes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Hickory Custom 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: