Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

home4docs.com

Home4Docs: a Medical Student Homestay in Chicago

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

557 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

home4docs.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Home4docs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 557 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

home4docs.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,700 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.317

37/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home4docs.com

557 ms

style.min.css

180 ms

style.css

254 ms

font-awesome.min.css

247 ms

css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Home4docs.com, 12% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (853 ms) belongs to the original domain Home4docs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 359.4 kB (10%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Home4docs.com main page is 3.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 75.8 kB

  • Original 91.8 kB
  • After minification 87.3 kB
  • After compression 16.0 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 75.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 281.3 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Home4 Docs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 327 B

  • Original 50.4 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 47.2 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. Home4docs.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (24%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home4 Docs. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

home4docs.com accessibility score

92

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

home4docs.com best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

home4docs.com SEO score

93

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 Home4docs.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 Home4docs.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 Home4 Docs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: