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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

homeinstead.ie

Home Care In Ireland - Home Instead

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

187 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

979 ms

homeinstead.ie screenshot

About Website

Visit homeinstead.ie now to see the best up-to-date Home Instead content for Ireland and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about homeinstead.ie

Trusted Home Care and Home Help in Ireland. Our Home Care allows seniors to live at home for as long as possible. Find Local Home Care Services now.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeinstead.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 187 ms and then it took 3.8 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

homeinstead.ie performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

65/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeinstead.ie

187 ms

www.homeinstead.ie

721 ms

otSDKStub.js

48 ms

main.css

208 ms

picturefill.min.js

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Homeinstead.ie, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Homeinstead.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

8.4 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeinstead.ie main page is 8.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 178.9 kB

  • Original 196.4 kB
  • After minification 131.9 kB
  • After compression 17.5 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 64.5 kB, which is 33% 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 178.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 281.4 kB

  • Original 8.0 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Home Instead images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 69 B

  • Original 179.0 kB
  • After minification 179.0 kB
  • After compression 179.0 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.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 105 B

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. Homeinstead.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (7%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

67

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Instead. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homeinstead.ie

homeinstead.ie

187 ms

www.homeinstead.ie

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721 ms

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48 ms

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208 ms

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43 ms

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32 ms

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365 ms

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844 ms

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878 ms

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848 ms

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326 ms

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873 ms

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674 ms

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806 ms

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850 ms

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940 ms

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970 ms

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500x660_New_Client_and_CAREGiver_at_table.JPG

1038 ms

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1052 ms

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1057 ms

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89 ms

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1109 ms

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39 ms

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578 ms

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561 ms

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554 ms

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Accessibility Review

homeinstead.ie accessibility score

96

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

homeinstead.ie 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

SEO Factors

homeinstead.ie SEO score

92

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

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 Homeinstead.ie 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 Homeinstead.ie 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

homeinstead.ie

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