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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

homelink.org

Home Exchange and House Swap Holidays with Homelink

Page Load Speed

507 ms in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

377 ms

Page Rendered

63 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homelink.org page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 440 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homelink.org performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,980 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homelink.org

67 ms

185 ms

d46f0068764b6d8c.css

44 ms

d24ee11cd7cb80ba.css

47 ms

de7175408bd63053.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Homelink.org, 7% (1 request) were made to Api.mapbox.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (185 ms) belongs to the original domain Homelink.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 729.2 kB (19%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Homelink.org main page is 3.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 6.8 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. 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 37.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 141.0 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Homelink images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 550.8 kB

  • Original 848.0 kB
  • After minification 831.7 kB
  • After compression 297.2 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 550.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (75%)

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homelink. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homelink.org

homelink.org

67 ms

185 ms

d46f0068764b6d8c.css

d46f0068764b6d8c.css

44 ms

d24ee11cd7cb80ba.css

d24ee11cd7cb80ba.css

47 ms

de7175408bd63053.css

de7175408bd63053.css

42 ms

fd9d1056-d10406e9f71a6f09.js

fd9d1056-d10406e9f71a6f09.js

33 ms

396464d2-83cc24abd3386ec6.js

396464d2-83cc24abd3386ec6.js

55 ms

568-8fffe25a1bf7affd.js

568-8fffe25a1bf7affd.js

52 ms

main-app-2f0fcbe30966ddff.js

main-app-2f0fcbe30966ddff.js

54 ms

mapbox-gl.css

mapbox-gl.css

19 ms

polyfills-78c92fac7aa8fdd8.js

polyfills-78c92fac7aa8fdd8.js

57 ms

webpack-7a42b4ee8c2de525.js

webpack-7a42b4ee8c2de525.js

61 ms

css2

css2

37 ms

hli_loader_icon.svg

hli_loader_icon.svg

27 ms

Accessibility Review

homelink.org accessibility score

80

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

homelink.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homelink.org SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Homelink.org 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 Homelink.org 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

homelink.org

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