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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thehomeinspector.ca

Home - The Home Inspector Inc.

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

35 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

484 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehomeinspector.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 35 ms and then it took 2.5 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

thehomeinspector.ca performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,900 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.035

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehomeinspector.ca

35 ms

www.thehomeinspector.ca

161 ms

style.min.css

18 ms

styles.css

30 ms

style.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Thehomeinspector.ca, 15% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Homegauge.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Homegauge.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 732.1 kB (18%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehomeinspector.ca main page is 4.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 106.1 kB

  • Original 134.3 kB
  • After minification 122.9 kB
  • After compression 28.3 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 106.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 87.9 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 MB

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. The Home Inspector images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 440.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 584.2 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 440.2 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 98.0 kB

  • Original 200.7 kB
  • After minification 154.7 kB
  • After compression 102.7 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. Thehomeinspector.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.0 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (69%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Home Inspector. 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 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thehomeinspector.ca

thehomeinspector.ca

35 ms

www.thehomeinspector.ca

www.thehomeinspector.ca

161 ms

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18 ms

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30 ms

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46 ms

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38 ms

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38 ms

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34 ms

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35 ms

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65 ms

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60 ms

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97 ms

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59 ms

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1067 ms

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126 ms

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135 ms

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56 ms

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136 ms

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135 ms

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133 ms

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132 ms

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133 ms

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145 ms

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147 ms

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132 ms

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141 ms

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146 ms

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148 ms

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149 ms

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148 ms

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24 ms

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278 ms

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273 ms

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202 ms

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61 ms

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186 ms

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78 ms

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170 ms

Accessibility Review

thehomeinspector.ca accessibility score

66

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thehomeinspector.ca best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

thehomeinspector.ca SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Thehomeinspector.ca 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 Thehomeinspector.ca 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

thehomeinspector.ca

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