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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

hometownre.org

Home Town Real Estate - Belfast, Maine Homes and Property Management

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

668 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hometownre.org homepage info - get ready to check Home Town Re best content right away, or after learning these important things about hometownre.org

Hometown Real Estate is a small management firm which offers affordable rentals and sales in the Waldo County Maine area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hometownre.org page load time and found that the first response time was 668 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hometownre.org performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hometownre.org

668 ms

DefaultStyleSheet.css

65 ms

functions.js

122 ms

ga.js

8 ms

Header_Dark.jpg

122 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Hometownre.org, 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (668 ms) belongs to the original domain Hometownre.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

587.7 kB

After Optimization

487.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hometownre.org main page is 587.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 565.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 784 B, which is 21% 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 2.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 97.7 kB

  • Original 565.2 kB
  • After minification 467.5 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 Town Re needs image optimization as it can save up to 97.7 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 254 B

  • Original 18.1 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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

-20%

Potential reduce by 134 B

  • Original 681 B
  • After minification 681 B
  • After compression 547 B

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. Hometownre.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 134 B or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Town Re. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

hometownre.org

hometownre.org

668 ms

DefaultStyleSheet.css

DefaultStyleSheet.css

65 ms

functions.js

functions.js

122 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

Header_Dark.jpg

Header_Dark.jpg

122 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

NavBar_Dark.jpg

NavBar_Dark.jpg

66 ms

UpperContent_Dark.jpg

UpperContent_Dark.jpg

124 ms

RepeatableContent_Dark.jpg

RepeatableContent_Dark.jpg

125 ms

belfast_maine.png

belfast_maine.png

531 ms

Footer_Dark.jpg

Footer_Dark.jpg

124 ms

Accessibility Review

hometownre.org accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

hometownre.org best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

hometownre.org SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hometownre.org can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Hometownre.org 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

hometownre.org

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