Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

homegain.com

HomeGain.com

Page Load Speed

57.7 sec in total

First Response

596 ms

Resources Loaded

22.6 sec

Page Rendered

34.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homegain.com page load time and found that the first response time was 596 ms and then it took 57.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homegain.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,090 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homegain.com

596 ms

www.homegain.com

478 ms

css

1380 ms

jquery.min.js

1870 ms

hgWIdget.css

337 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Homegain.com, 10% (6 requests) were made to Google.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) relates to the external source Collect.tealiumiq.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (30%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Homegain.com main page is 4.8 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.5 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 33.4 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 6.8 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 30.5 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 589.4 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Obviously, Home Gain needs image optimization as it can save up to 589.4 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 568.2 kB

  • Original 865.3 kB
  • After minification 789.4 kB
  • After compression 297.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 568.2 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 245.4 kB

  • Original 371.3 kB
  • After minification 340.2 kB
  • After compression 125.8 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. Homegain.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 245.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (57%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Gain. 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

homegain.com accessibility score

84

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

homegain.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

SEO Factors

homegain.com SEO score

83

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homegain.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Homegain.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 Home Gain. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: