Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

landwatch.com

Land for Sale, Farms and Ranches for Sale | LandWatch

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

541 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

279 ms

landwatch.com screenshot

About Website

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LandWatch, the leading and largest land site, helps you find land for sale, hunting land, farms for sale, ranches, and log cabins.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Landwatch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 541 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

landwatch.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

48/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.092

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.5 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.landwatch.com

541 ms

jscript.js

238 ms

site.css

161 ms

site.css

181 ms

lwFF.css

181 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Landwatch.com, 25% (30 requests) were made to Images.landwatch.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Images.landwatch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 588.1 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

810.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Landwatch.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 599.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.2 kB

  • Original 98.1 kB
  • After minification 86.1 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 12.0 kB, which is 12% 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 80.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 26.5 kB

  • Original 599.9 kB
  • After minification 573.4 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. Land Watch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 260.5 kB

  • Original 434.8 kB
  • After minification 390.3 kB
  • After compression 174.3 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 260.5 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 220.9 kB

  • Original 266.1 kB
  • After minification 256.6 kB
  • After compression 45.1 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. Landwatch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 220.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (48%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

61

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Land Watch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

landwatch.com accessibility score

96

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

landwatch.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

landwatch.com SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Landwatch.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 Landwatch.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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