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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

sterlinghomes.co.uk

Sterling Estate Agents | Property | Berkhamsted | Tring | Kings Langley | Sterling

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

935 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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About Website

Welcome to sterlinghomes.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Sterling Homes best content right away, or after learning these important things about sterlinghomes.co.uk

Sterling Estate Agents with high street property centres in Tring , Berkhamsted and Kings Langley have built a long term reputation for valuing, selling and letting all nature of property from one bed...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sterlinghomes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 935 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sterlinghomes.co.uk performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sterlinghomes.co.uk

935 ms

blob.css

31 ms

img-featured.jpg

164 ms

image001_1_.jpg

178 ms

homeflow.png

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Sterlinghomes.co.uk, 27% (3 requests) were made to Mr1.homeflow-assets.co.uk and 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (935 ms) belongs to the original domain Sterlinghomes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 99.8 kB (10%)

Content Size

972.1 kB

After Optimization

872.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Sterlinghomes.co.uk main page is 972.1 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 674.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 99.7 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 138.3 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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 99.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 674.6 kB
  • After minification 674.6 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. Sterling Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 80 B

  • Original 157.3 kB
  • After minification 157.3 kB
  • After compression 157.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (30%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sterling Homes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sterlinghomes.co.uk

www.sterlinghomes.co.uk

935 ms

blob.css

blob.css

31 ms

img-featured.jpg

img-featured.jpg

164 ms

image001_1_.jpg

image001_1_.jpg

178 ms

homeflow.png

homeflow.png

34 ms

common.bundle.f65a88d58f768f5cffc3.js

common.bundle.f65a88d58f768f5cffc3.js

20 ms

home.bundle.04e09140cb77115f96d9.js

home.bundle.04e09140cb77115f96d9.js

24 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

17 ms

VALBTN.png

VALBTN.png

125 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

js

js

58 ms

Accessibility Review

sterlinghomes.co.uk 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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sterlinghomes.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

sterlinghomes.co.uk 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sterlinghomes.co.uk 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 Sterlinghomes.co.uk 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

sterlinghomes.co.uk

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