Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

610 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Househunters.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

househunters.ca performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value34.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value47,720 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.75

6/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value59.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

abrealestateteam.com

1223 ms

fbevents.js

55 ms

gtm.js

93 ms

css

123 ms

w4r_668_20210413155606_20220331124948_v1229_2495677.css

300 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Househunters.ca, 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Abrealestateteam.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.8 kB (14%)

Content Size

629.1 kB

After Optimization

539.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Househunters.ca main page is 629.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 262.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 69.4 kB

  • Original 90.5 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 69.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 253.2 kB
  • After minification 235.3 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. Househunters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 1.3 kB

  • Original 262.0 kB
  • After minification 262.0 kB
  • After compression 260.7 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. Househunters.ca has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (42%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Househunters. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

househunters.ca accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role] values are not valid

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

househunters.ca best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

househunters.ca SEO score

74

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Househunters.ca can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Househunters.ca 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 data is detected on the main page of Househunters. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: