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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

homesense.ca

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Page Load Speed

711 ms in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

556 ms

Page Rendered

59 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homesense.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 615 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homesense.ca performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.622

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

47/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homesense.ca

96 ms

www.homesense.ca

289 ms

index-101f4103.css

19 ms

0614ebff-0ec3-4726-98b3-379062bb14e7-622f3feb.woff

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Homesense.ca and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (289 ms) belongs to the original domain Homesense.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 377.4 kB (87%)

Content Size

433.2 kB

After Optimization

55.8 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homesense.ca main page is 433.2 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 429.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 3.5 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 788 B

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 619 B, 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 2.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 374.7 kB

  • Original 429.7 kB
  • After minification 429.7 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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. Homesense.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 374.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • CSS

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Sense. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

homesense.ca

homesense.ca

96 ms

www.homesense.ca

www.homesense.ca

289 ms

index-101f4103.css

index-101f4103.css

19 ms

0614ebff-0ec3-4726-98b3-379062bb14e7-622f3feb.woff

0614ebff-0ec3-4726-98b3-379062bb14e7-622f3feb.woff

36 ms

Accessibility Review

homesense.ca accessibility score

85

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

homesense.ca 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

homesense.ca 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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Homesense.ca 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 Homesense.ca 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

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