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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

home.co.uk

Home.co.uk - Find Your Perfect Home | 677,885+ Properties For Sale & Rent Across the UK

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

92 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Home.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 289 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

home.co.uk performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home.co.uk

289 ms

www.home.co.uk

486 ms

homeco2.css

98 ms

homeco_homepage.css

191 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.2.min.css

283 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Home.co.uk, 4% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (555 ms) belongs to the original domain Home.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

176.0 kB

After Optimization

141.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Home.co.uk main page is 176.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 110.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 31.5 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 25.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 15.4 kB
  • After minification 15.4 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. Home images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 110.0 kB
  • After minification 110.0 kB
  • After compression 103.9 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 3.0 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 19.1 kB
  • After compression 16.2 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.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (67%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

home.co.uk

home.co.uk

289 ms

www.home.co.uk

www.home.co.uk

486 ms

homeco2.css

homeco2.css

98 ms

homeco_homepage.css

homeco_homepage.css

191 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.2.min.css

jquery-ui-1.13.2.min.css

283 ms

homeco_site.js

homeco_site.js

286 ms

homeco_homepage.js

homeco_homepage.js

286 ms

homeco_shared.js

homeco_shared.js

308 ms

js

js

69 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

30 ms

jquery-ui-1.13.2.min.js

jquery-ui-1.13.2.min.js

555 ms

spring.jpg

spring.jpg

129 ms

blue_home_co_uk.png

blue_home_co_uk.png

129 ms

blue_tab.gif

blue_tab.gif

130 ms

green_tab.gif

green_tab.gif

130 ms

blue_bg_top.png

blue_bg_top.png

187 ms

blue_bg_top_right.png

blue_bg_top_right.png

187 ms

blue_bg_middle.png

blue_bg_middle.png

188 ms

find_button_bg.png

find_button_bg.png

177 ms

blue_bg_bottom.png

blue_bg_bottom.png

267 ms

blue_bg_bottom_left.png

blue_bg_bottom_left.png

268 ms

blue_bg_bottom_right.png

blue_bg_bottom_right.png

269 ms

white_homepage_menu_bg_open.png

white_homepage_menu_bg_open.png

213 ms

Accessibility Review

home.co.uk accessibility score

82

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

home.co.uk 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

home.co.uk SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Home.co.uk 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.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

home.co.uk

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