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homestars.biz

HomeStars | Find Home Professionals in Toronto

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

527 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

609 ms

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About Website

Visit homestars.biz now to see the best up-to-date Home Stars content for Canada and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about homestars.biz

With over 146 home improvement service categories for Toronto, ON, you can connect with a reputable home professional that will get the job done on HomeStars.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homestars.biz page load time and found that the first response time was 527 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Homestars.biz, 24% (19 requests) were made to D2qvi4mugahn4a.cloudfront.net and 10% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (540 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (29%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

3.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homestars.biz main page is 5.3 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 75.0 kB
  • After compression 15.8 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 59.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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 Stars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 743.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 364.4 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 743.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 706.6 kB

  • Original 785.7 kB
  • After minification 777.4 kB
  • After compression 79.0 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. Homestars.biz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 706.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (30%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

49

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Stars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

homestars.biz SEO score

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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 Homestars.biz 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 Homestars.biz 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 data is detected on the main page of Home Stars. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: