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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

home-cost.com

Home-Cost.com | Home Building Cost Estimating Software

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

home-cost.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Home-cost.com page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

home-cost.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.home-cost.com

167 ms

sina-morphing.min.css

54 ms

de-scroll-animation.css

74 ms

de-reveal-animation.css

79 ms

revealer.css

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 116 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (108 requests) were addressed to the original Home-cost.com, 3% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.amcharts.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (356 ms) belongs to the original domain Home-cost.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 280.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Home-cost.com main page is 2.2 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. 80% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 197.3 kB

  • Original 230.8 kB
  • After minification 212.5 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 197.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Home Cost images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 618.1 kB
  • After minification 618.1 kB
  • After compression 589.0 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 238.7 kB
  • After minification 237.9 kB
  • After compression 203.6 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. Home-cost.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.1 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 99 (90%)

Requests Now

110

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 110 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Cost. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 48 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.home-cost.com

www.home-cost.com

167 ms

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Accessibility Review

home-cost.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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

home-cost.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

home-cost.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Home-cost.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 Home-cost.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

home-cost.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Home Cost. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: