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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

oldhouses.com

Old Houses for Sale, Historic House Photo Archive and Resources - OldHouses.com

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

712 ms

Page Rendered

299 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Old Houses content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about oldhouses.com

OldHouses.com is a resource for old house lovers buying or selling historic real estate properties. We provide listings of historic homes for sale, an old house archive, and old house related resource...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Oldhouses.com page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

oldhouses.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,250 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.416

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

oldhouses.com

36 ms

www.oldhouses.com

96 ms

normalizem.css

33 ms

main.110.css

51 ms

slick.css

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Oldhouses.com, 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (320 ms) belongs to the original domain Oldhouses.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 261.0 kB (38%)

Content Size

693.4 kB

After Optimization

432.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Oldhouses.com main page is 693.4 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. Images take 508.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 14.9 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 20.0 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 14.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 160.9 kB

  • Original 508.0 kB
  • After minification 347.1 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, Old Houses needs image optimization as it can save up to 160.9 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 48.3 kB

  • Original 118.5 kB
  • After minification 114.4 kB
  • After compression 70.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 48.3 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 45.6 kB
  • After minification 30.7 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. Oldhouses.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 36.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (31%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Old 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

oldhouses.com

oldhouses.com

36 ms

www.oldhouses.com

www.oldhouses.com

96 ms

normalizem.css

normalizem.css

33 ms

main.110.css

main.110.css

51 ms

slick.css

slick.css

86 ms

slick-themem.css

slick-themem.css

83 ms

css

css

62 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

48 ms

util.js

util.js

320 ms

js

js

116 ms

testimonials.js

testimonials.js

114 ms

gen.js

gen.js

269 ms

requestform.js

requestform.js

289 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

115 ms

css2

css2

24 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

173 ms

logo.png

logo.png

104 ms

key.png

key.png

104 ms

woodbg.jpg

woodbg.jpg

105 ms

XL_357242_MLS_Size-51.jpg

XL_357242_MLS_Size-51.jpg

155 ms

point-R-60x45.png

point-R-60x45.png

103 ms

welcome.png

welcome.png

159 ms

mailSlot.png

mailSlot.png

157 ms

submitup.png

submitup.png

158 ms

blank.png

blank.png

159 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

161 ms

fb.png

fb.png

160 ms

inst.png

inst.png

160 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

161 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

199 ms

S_34491_Greg_Rapp_Pic.JPG

S_34491_Greg_Rapp_Pic.JPG

200 ms

S_160945_1-Hollander-historic.png

S_160945_1-Hollander-historic.png

200 ms

L_140442_DSC_0029.JPG

L_140442_DSC_0029.JPG

200 ms

handup.png

handup.png

176 ms

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kmKnZrc3Hgbbcjq75U4uslyuy4kn0pNe.ttf

58 ms

kmKiZrc3Hgbbcjq75U4uslyuy4kn0qviTjYw.ttf

kmKiZrc3Hgbbcjq75U4uslyuy4kn0qviTjYw.ttf

87 ms

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

88 ms

kmKhZrc3Hgbbcjq75U4uslyuy4kn0qNcaxY.ttf

kmKhZrc3Hgbbcjq75U4uslyuy4kn0qNcaxY.ttf

292 ms

js

js

57 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

17 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

Accessibility Review

oldhouses.com accessibility score

79

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

oldhouses.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

oldhouses.com SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Oldhouses.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 Oldhouses.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Old Houses. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: