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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

house-builder.co.uk

House-Builder.co.uk UK House Building Magazine, Housing News, Building Products, Supplier Directory

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

house-builder.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit house-builder.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date House Builder content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about house-builder.co.uk

HouseBuilder Magazine website for Industry News, Product Reviews, Events, Supplier Directory. The Uks best read HouseBuilding Magazine

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Key Findings

We analyzed House-builder.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 2.2 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

house-builder.co.uk performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

38/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.305

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

house-builder.co.uk

193 ms

www.house-builder.co.uk

607 ms

mhu3qgr.css

90 ms

main.min.css

415 ms

style.css

347 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original House-builder.co.uk, 6% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 1% (1 request) were made to P.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (720 ms) belongs to the original domain House-builder.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of House-builder.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 127.3 kB

  • Original 139.5 kB
  • After minification 89.8 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 49.7 kB, which is 36% 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 127.3 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. House Builder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 33.6 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 33.6 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 5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (9%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

68

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House Builder. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

house-builder.co.uk

house-builder.co.uk

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607 ms

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90 ms

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Accessibility Review

house-builder.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

house-builder.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

SEO Factors

house-builder.co.uk SEO score

81

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

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

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 House-builder.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 House-builder.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

house-builder.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of House Builder. 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: