Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

houses.net

Home Searching Made Easy

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

370 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

822 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houses.net page load time and found that the first response time was 370 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houses.net performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.houses.net

370 ms

css

62 ms

font-awesome.min.css

33 ms

css

68 ms

houses.css

238 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Houses.net, 18% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fullstory.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (945 ms) belongs to the original domain Houses.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 398.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Houses.net main page is 1.5 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 966.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 46.0 kB

  • Original 63.0 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.1 kB, which is 11% 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 46.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 966.2 kB
  • After minification 945.5 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. Houses images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

  • Original 85.8 kB
  • After minification 85.8 kB
  • After compression 47.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 38.0 kB or 44% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 293.6 kB

  • Original 360.8 kB
  • After minification 355.8 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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. Houses.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 293.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (48%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houses. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

houses.net accessibility score

97

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

houses.net 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

houses.net SEO score

89

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

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 Houses.net 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 Houses.net 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 Houses. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: