Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

homedna.com

Easy At-Home DNA Testing and Genetic Testing | HomeDNA

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

371 ms

homedna.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing HomeDNA content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about homedna.com

HomeDNA offers at-home DNA testing and paternity tests to help you learn more about your ancestry, health & beauty, and even your pets. Click to learn more!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homedna.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 2.4 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

homedna.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.852

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homedna.com

29 ms

homedna.com

664 ms

bootstrap.min.css

27 ms

font-awesome.min.css

54 ms

pagebuilder-style.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Homedna.com, 12% (13 requests) were made to D.adroll.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to S.adroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (664 ms) belongs to the original domain Homedna.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (14%)

Content Size

12.0 MB

After Optimization

10.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Homedna.com main page is 12.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 57.4 kB

  • Original 71.1 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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 12.8 kB, which is 18% 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 57.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 11.0 MB
  • After minification 9.9 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. HomeDNA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-45%

Potential reduce by 332.2 kB

  • Original 746.0 kB
  • After minification 746.0 kB
  • After compression 413.8 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 332.2 kB or 45% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 148.7 kB

  • Original 177.1 kB
  • After minification 168.3 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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. Homedna.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 148.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (45%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HomeDNA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homedna.com accessibility score

76

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

homedna.com best practices score

67

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

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

SEO Factors

homedna.com SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homedna.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 Homedna.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

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