Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

homehippo.ug

Home | Home Hippo Limited: Uganda's Estate Agent. Properties for Sale, Short and Long Lets

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

92 ms

homehippo.ug screenshot

About Website

Welcome to homehippo.ug homepage info - get ready to check Home Hippo best content for Uganda right away, or after learning these important things about homehippo.ug

Kampala Estate Agent Home Hippo listing Kampala properties for sale, long lettings, short term rentals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homehippo.ug page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homehippo.ug performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.231

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.3 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homehippo.ug

2718 ms

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668 ms

css_JX2hSPv2wuxyU8LFiCCHfS1vR5syKXKOoI47yeos6Mw.css

669 ms

css_zurra9CnLy_Lm5fO0NlkE1132zspK9-pX2JrW6wY6tw.css

758 ms

css_xFs-UVW3sN9OZSNkSAM6-AooCKradehKzDvI_xuR59I.css

775 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Homehippo.ug, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Homehippo.ug.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 231.4 kB (48%)

Content Size

481.0 kB

After Optimization

249.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Homehippo.ug main page is 481.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 285.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 33.4 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. 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 26.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 19.0 kB

  • Original 116.2 kB
  • After minification 97.2 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, Home Hippo needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.0 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 150.8 kB

  • Original 285.4 kB
  • After minification 255.6 kB
  • After compression 134.7 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 150.8 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 46.1 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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. Homehippo.ug needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (48%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Hippo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homehippo.ug accessibility score

89

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

homehippo.ug best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homehippo.ug SEO score

92

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 Homehippo.ug 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 Homehippo.ug 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 description is not detected on the main page of Home Hippo. 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: