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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

homebase.co.nz

Home Staging Auckland | Experts at Staging a House to Sell Faster

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

704 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homebase.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 704 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homebase.co.nz performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,540 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.276

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.homebase.co.nz

704 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

14 ms

style.min.css

676 ms

rs6.css

462 ms

js_composer.min.css

899 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Homebase.co.nz, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Homebase.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.8 kB (76%)

Content Size

127.6 kB

After Optimization

30.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Homebase.co.nz main page is 127.6 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. HTML takes 115.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 96.7 kB

  • Original 115.6 kB
  • After minification 97.2 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.4 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 96.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 120 B

  • Original 8.1 kB
  • After minification 8.0 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 Base images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (83%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Base. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.homebase.co.nz

www.homebase.co.nz

704 ms

rocket-loader.min.js

rocket-loader.min.js

14 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

676 ms

rs6.css

rs6.css

462 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

899 ms

formreset.min.css

formreset.min.css

449 ms

formsmain.min.css

formsmain.min.css

453 ms

readyclass.min.css

readyclass.min.css

639 ms

browsers.min.css

browsers.min.css

889 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1113 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

911 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

1084 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

1110 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

1331 ms

8246.js

8246.js

1332 ms

style.css

style.css

1561 ms

homebase-logo.png

homebase-logo.png

1075 ms

css

css

30 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

1319 ms

306927499143.js

306927499143.js

1341 ms

widget.js

widget.js

2204 ms

widget.js

widget.js

120 ms

sprite@1x.png

sprite@1x.png

71 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

51 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

52 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

35 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

17 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

78 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

50 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

78 ms

normal.woff2

normal.woff2

189 ms

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memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0B4gaVc.ttf

49 ms

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49 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

443 ms

Accessibility Review

homebase.co.nz accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

homebase.co.nz 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

homebase.co.nz SEO score

91

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

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 Homebase.co.nz 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 Homebase.co.nz 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

homebase.co.nz

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