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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

hometownlocal.com

Local Online Marketing In Your Hometown From HometownLocal

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

397 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

176 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hometownlocal.com page load time and found that the first response time was 397 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hometownlocal.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.7 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hometownlocal.com

397 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

27 ms

style.min.css

53 ms

styles.css

72 ms

page-list.css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (66 requests) were addressed to the original Hometownlocal.com, 7% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (441 ms) belongs to the original domain Hometownlocal.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 298.6 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

793.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hometownlocal.com main page is 1.1 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. 75% 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 371.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 189.2 kB

  • Original 226.5 kB
  • After minification 222.4 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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 189.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 79.4 kB

  • Original 371.0 kB
  • After minification 291.6 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, Hometown Local needs image optimization as it can save up to 79.4 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 337.5 kB
  • After minification 337.5 kB
  • After compression 309.9 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 156.6 kB
  • After minification 156.6 kB
  • After compression 154.2 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. Hometownlocal.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (88%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hometown Local. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hometownlocal.com

hometownlocal.com

397 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

27 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

53 ms

styles.css

styles.css

72 ms

page-list.css

page-list.css

73 ms

nectar-slider.css

nectar-slider.css

79 ms

wprev-public_combine.css

wprev-public_combine.css

76 ms

font-awesome-legacy.min.css

font-awesome-legacy.min.css

82 ms

grid-system.css

grid-system.css

73 ms

style.css

style.css

124 ms

header-layout-centered-menu.css

header-layout-centered-menu.css

93 ms

header-secondary-nav.css

header-secondary-nav.css

94 ms

element-fancy-box.css

element-fancy-box.css

96 ms

css

css

35 ms

fullpage.css

fullpage.css

98 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

100 ms

skin-original.css

skin-original.css

114 ms

menu-dynamic.css

menu-dynamic.css

107 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

109 ms

Defaults.css

Defaults.css

112 ms

ultimate.min.css

ultimate.min.css

144 ms

css

css

40 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

176 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

127 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

132 ms

ultimate.min.js

ultimate.min.js

193 ms

ultimate_bg.min.js

ultimate_bg.min.js

134 ms

js

js

75 ms

magnific.css

magnific.css

173 ms

core.css

core.css

190 ms

slide-out-right-hover.css

slide-out-right-hover.css

191 ms

menu.min.js

menu.min.js

226 ms

regenerator-runtime.min.js

regenerator-runtime.min.js

227 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

227 ms

dom-ready.min.js

dom-ready.min.js

347 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

347 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

347 ms

a11y.min.js

a11y.min.js

348 ms

autocomplete.min.js

autocomplete.min.js

348 ms

wpss-search-suggest.js

wpss-search-suggest.js

348 ms

index.js

index.js

339 ms

anime.min.js

anime.min.js

312 ms

nectar-slider.js

nectar-slider.js

297 ms

wprev-public-com-min.js

wprev-public-com-min.js

295 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

291 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

292 ms

priority.js

priority.js

283 ms

nectar-slider-priority.js

nectar-slider-priority.js

283 ms

transit.min.js

transit.min.js

284 ms

waypoints.js

waypoints.js

274 ms

imagesLoaded.min.js

imagesLoaded.min.js

280 ms

hoverintent.min.js

hoverintent.min.js

272 ms

magnific.js

magnific.js

272 ms

jquery.fullPage.min.js

jquery.fullPage.min.js

261 ms

nectar-full-page-rows.js

nectar-full-page-rows.js

260 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

365 ms

init.js

init.js

441 ms

touchswipe.min.js

touchswipe.min.js

352 ms

SmoothScroll.min.js

SmoothScroll.min.js

348 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

343 ms

hometownlocal.js

hometownlocal.js

279 ms

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HT-Local-400x51.png

247 ms

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99design-fish2.jpg

412 ms

Google-PartnerBadge-160x90.png

Google-PartnerBadge-160x90.png

324 ms

HT-Local-Trans-email-signature-new.png

HT-Local-Trans-email-signature-new.png

322 ms

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322 ms

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211 ms

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icomoon.woff

190 ms

Defaults.woff

Defaults.woff

280 ms

fontawesome-webfont.svg

fontawesome-webfont.svg

280 ms

in.php

in.php

363 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

54 ms

Accessibility Review

hometownlocal.com accessibility score

86

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.

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

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

hometownlocal.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

hometownlocal.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Hometownlocal.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 Hometownlocal.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

hometownlocal.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Hometown Local. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: