Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

house.com

House.com | Real Estate |Homes for Sale | Real Estate News & Insights |Apartments & Houses for Sale

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

265 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

649 ms

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About Website

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House.com is the leading marketplace for new construction homes in American、China、Singapore and UAE. Search all new construction homes, condos, townhomes and connect with local professionals.

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Key Findings

We analyzed House.com page load time and found that the first response time was 265 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

house.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

house.com

265 ms

house.com

1464 ms

bootstrap.min.css

58 ms

custom-bootstrap.css

31 ms

f-color.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original House.com, 12% (9 requests) were made to Static.house.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain House.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 378.7 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of House.com main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-93%

Potential reduce by 206.4 kB

  • Original 222.0 kB
  • After minification 102.4 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 119.6 kB, which is 54% 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 206.4 kB or 93% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 143.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 863.3 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, House needs image optimization as it can save up to 143.7 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 119.9 kB
  • After minification 119.9 kB
  • After compression 105.7 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 14.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.3 kB
  • After compression 41.4 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. House.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (70%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House. 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 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

house.com accessibility score

80

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.

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

house.com 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

house.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 House.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 House.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

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