Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

homesfornow.com

Homes For Now: Property Management in the Twin Cities

Page Load Speed

839 ms in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

177 ms

Page Rendered

645 ms

homesfornow.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Homes For Now content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about homesfornow.com

Homes For Now offers reliable property management services in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. We also have residential rental properties available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homesfornow.com page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 822 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homesfornow.com performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homesfornow.com

17 ms

www.homesfornow.com

36 ms

all.css

47 ms

HFN+Horizontal+Logo-576w.png

40 ms

powered-by-appfolio.png

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Homesfornow.com, 36% (5 requests) were made to Static.cdn-website.com and 21% (3 requests) were made to Lirp.cdn-website.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (68 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.appfoliowebsites.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.9 kB (30%)

Content Size

292.0 kB

After Optimization

205.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Homesfornow.com main page is 292.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 131.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 84.5 kB

  • Original 112.6 kB
  • After minification 108.6 kB
  • After compression 28.1 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 84.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 34.4 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. Homes For Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 749 B

  • Original 131.4 kB
  • After minification 131.4 kB
  • After compression 130.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 11.9 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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. Homesfornow.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (40%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homes For Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homesfornow.com 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.

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

homesfornow.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

homesfornow.com 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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Homesfornow.com 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 Homesfornow.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 Homes For Now. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: