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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

homeswapper.co.uk

HomeSwapper

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

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About Website

Welcome to homeswapper.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Home Swapper best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about homeswapper.co.uk

HomeSwapper is the UK’s leading mutual exchange service with over 500,000 tenants, looking to swap Council and Housing Association homes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeswapper.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeswapper.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.032

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeswapper.co.uk

176 ms

homeswapper.co.uk

1956 ms

www.homeswapper.co.uk

308 ms

publichomepage

144 ms

day.css

1672 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Homeswapper.co.uk, 19% (9 requests) were made to Swaptracker.co.uk and 6% (3 requests) were made to Data.pendo.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Homeswapper.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 518.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeswapper.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 35.1 kB
  • After minification 30.2 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 4.9 kB, which is 14% 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 24.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 280.3 kB
  • After minification 223.9 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. Obviously, Home Swapper needs image optimization as it can save up to 56.4 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 415.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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 415.3 kB or 29% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 64.7 kB
  • After compression 43.1 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. Homeswapper.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 22.5 kB or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Swapper. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homeswapper.co.uk

homeswapper.co.uk

176 ms

homeswapper.co.uk

homeswapper.co.uk

1956 ms

www.homeswapper.co.uk

www.homeswapper.co.uk

308 ms

publichomepage

publichomepage

144 ms

day.css

day.css

1672 ms

global

global

2187 ms

homepage

homepage

1751 ms

EUCookie.js

EUCookie.js

513 ms

MHAMTypeAhead.js

MHAMTypeAhead.js

513 ms

moon.png

moon.png

351 ms

logo.png

logo.png

486 ms

bird.gif

bird.gif

419 ms

sun-image.png

sun-image.png

420 ms

bird2.gif

bird2.gif

617 ms

sketch-image.png

sketch-image.png

1562 ms

mobile-sketch-image.png

mobile-sketch-image.png

855 ms

choose_slide1.png

choose_slide1.png

687 ms

choose_slide2.png

choose_slide2.png

757 ms

choose_slide3.png

choose_slide3.png

827 ms

choose_slide4.png

choose_slide4.png

895 ms

MRI-footer-logo.svg

MRI-footer-logo.svg

924 ms

select-arrow.png

select-arrow.png

247 ms

cloudscroll-bg.png

cloudscroll-bg.png

202 ms

green-bg1680.png

green-bg1680.png

207 ms

footer_bg.png

footer_bg.png

248 ms

vag-rundschrift-d-light.woff

vag-rundschrift-d-light.woff

112 ms

vag-rundschrift-d-light.woff

vag-rundschrift-d-light.woff

181 ms

vag-rundschrift-d.woff

vag-rundschrift-d.woff

243 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

319 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

316 ms

vag-rundschrift-d-light.ttf

vag-rundschrift-d-light.ttf

681 ms

pendo.js

pendo.js

82 ms

nr-1216.min.js

nr-1216.min.js

42 ms

external-logout

external-logout

301 ms

vag-rundschrift-d-light.svg

vag-rundschrift-d-light.svg

74 ms

c9646c78-fe0c-4ac3-79c9-5519f16ea664

c9646c78-fe0c-4ac3-79c9-5519f16ea664

105 ms

c9646c78-fe0c-4ac3-79c9-5519f16ea664

c9646c78-fe0c-4ac3-79c9-5519f16ea664

48 ms

c9646c78-fe0c-4ac3-79c9-5519f16ea664

c9646c78-fe0c-4ac3-79c9-5519f16ea664

46 ms

4c437f861c

4c437f861c

138 ms

styles.css

styles.css

210 ms

tinymce.min.js

tinymce.min.js

495 ms

polyfills.2a5cd58b0ee174ae2a01.bundle.js

polyfills.2a5cd58b0ee174ae2a01.bundle.js

420 ms

app.2a5cd58b0ee174ae2a01.bundle.js

app.2a5cd58b0ee174ae2a01.bundle.js

895 ms

noto-sans.css

noto-sans.css

70 ms

vag-rundschrift-d.css

vag-rundschrift-d.css

143 ms

vag-rundschrift-d-light.css

vag-rundschrift-d-light.css

149 ms

vag-rundschrift-d-light.woff

vag-rundschrift-d-light.woff

71 ms

Accessibility Review

homeswapper.co.uk accessibility score

87

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

homeswapper.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

homeswapper.co.uk SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Homeswapper.co.uk 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 Homeswapper.co.uk 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

homeswapper.co.uk

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