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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

homebuilthifi.com

Homebuilt Hi-Fi - A user submitted image showcase of high quality home built hi-fi components.

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

679 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

102 ms

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About Website

Welcome to homebuilthifi.com homepage info - get ready to check Homebuilt Hi Fi best content right away, or after learning these important things about homebuilthifi.com

A user-submitted image gallery that showcases some of the best DIY hi-fi projects from around the world. Our focus is on aesthetics, design and build quality.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homebuilthifi.com page load time and found that the first response time was 679 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homebuilthifi.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homebuilthifi.com

679 ms

www.homebuilthifi.com

1330 ms

screen_styles.css

217 ms

mootools-1.2.2-core-more.js

864 ms

ondomready.js

642 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Homebuilthifi.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Homebuilthifi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 75.5 kB (18%)

Content Size

409.1 kB

After Optimization

333.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homebuilthifi.com main page is 409.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 230.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 10.6 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.8 kB, which is 17% 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 7.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 230.8 kB
  • After minification 195.7 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. Obviously, Homebuilt Hi Fi needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 31.0 kB

  • Original 161.5 kB
  • After minification 161.5 kB
  • After compression 130.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 31.0 kB or 19% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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. Homebuilthifi.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.5 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (15%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homebuilt Hi Fi. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homebuilthifi.com

homebuilthifi.com

679 ms

www.homebuilthifi.com

www.homebuilthifi.com

1330 ms

screen_styles.css

screen_styles.css

217 ms

mootools-1.2.2-core-more.js

mootools-1.2.2-core-more.js

864 ms

ondomready.js

ondomready.js

642 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

48 ms

Header_Logo.png

Header_Logo.png

215 ms

Menu_Icons.png

Menu_Icons.png

216 ms

amps.png

amps.png

216 ms

thumb.png

thumb.png

858 ms

thumb.JPG

thumb.JPG

431 ms

vinyl.png

vinyl.png

431 ms

thumb.JPG

thumb.JPG

642 ms

digital.png

digital.png

642 ms

thumb.jpg

thumb.jpg

855 ms

thumb.JPG

thumb.JPG

645 ms

thumb.JPG

thumb.JPG

644 ms

ga.js

ga.js

18 ms

like.php

like.php

209 ms

amps.png

amps.png

816 ms

amps.png

amps.png

816 ms

vinyl.png

vinyl.png

819 ms

vinyl.png

vinyl.png

819 ms

digital.png

digital.png

1030 ms

digital.png

digital.png

1030 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

c18EKeF51zt.js

c18EKeF51zt.js

18 ms

FEppCFCt76d.png

FEppCFCt76d.png

18 ms

Accessibility Review

homebuilthifi.com accessibility score

76

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

homebuilthifi.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

homebuilthifi.com SEO score

67

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homebuilthifi.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Homebuilthifi.com 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

homebuilthifi.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Homebuilt Hi Fi. 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: