Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

maps.hometownlocator.com

State Gazetteer: Boundary Maps, Demographic Data, for 343,132 Communities

Page Load Speed

684 ms in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

464 ms

Page Rendered

130 ms

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About Website

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State gazetteers with profiles for 343,132 communities. Profiles include a boundary map, current demographic data, school zones, and the most popular nearby places..

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Key Findings

We analyzed Maps.hometownlocator.com page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 594 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

maps.hometownlocator.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

91/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

maps.hometownlocator.com

90 ms

www.hometownlocator.com

221 ms

banger.js

23 ms

ga.js

25 ms

cmbv2.js

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Maps.hometownlocator.com, 35% (6 requests) were made to Hometownlocator.com and 12% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (221 ms) relates to the external source Hometownlocator.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 378.1 kB (63%)

Content Size

598.8 kB

After Optimization

220.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Maps.hometownlocator.com main page is 598.8 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 422.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 362.3 kB

  • Original 422.1 kB
  • After minification 422.1 kB
  • After compression 59.7 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 362.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 176.7 kB
  • After minification 176.7 kB
  • After compression 160.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (69%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Maps Hometownlocator. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

maps.hometownlocator.com accessibility score

76

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

maps.hometownlocator.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

maps.hometownlocator.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Maps.hometownlocator.com 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 Maps.hometownlocator.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 Maps Hometownlocator. 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: