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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

waterfordhomes.com

Custom Home Builders & Houses for Sale in Atlanta GA - Waterford Homes

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

158 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

330 ms

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About Website

Visit waterfordhomes.com now to see the best up-to-date Waterford Homes content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about waterfordhomes.com

Founded in 1991, Waterford Homes is one of Atlanta's most successful and respected private homebuilders. Winner of HBAG Builder of the Year in 2012 and 2010, Waterford Homes is Your Confidence Builder...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterfordhomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 158 ms and then it took 2.4 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

waterfordhomes.com performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.11

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordhomes.com

158 ms

www.waterfordhomes.com

224 ms

gtm.js

99 ms

stylesheet.css

59 ms

nivo-slider.css

119 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Waterfordhomes.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterfordhomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 500.5 kB (5%)

Content Size

9.2 MB

After Optimization

8.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterfordhomes.com main page is 9.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 34.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 281.8 kB

  • Original 8.8 MB
  • After minification 8.5 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. Waterford Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 176.1 kB

  • Original 320.7 kB
  • After minification 320.4 kB
  • After compression 144.5 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 176.1 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 28.7 kB
  • After minification 28.7 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Waterfordhomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.3 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (41%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Waterford 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 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

waterfordhomes.com

waterfordhomes.com

158 ms

www.waterfordhomes.com

www.waterfordhomes.com

224 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

99 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

59 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

119 ms

default.css

default.css

161 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

59 ms

tinynav.min.js

tinynav.min.js

175 ms

responsive-tabs.css

responsive-tabs.css

174 ms

responsiveTabs.min.js

responsiveTabs.min.js

173 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

176 ms

ajax.js

ajax.js

220 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

228 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

219 ms

media-queries.css

media-queries.css

216 ms

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

207 ms

szi7oqu.js

szi7oqu.js

138 ms

navscript.js

navscript.js

210 ms

bjqs.css

bjqs.css

254 ms

bjqs-1.3.min.js

bjqs-1.3.min.js

260 ms

js

js

115 ms

oms.min.js

oms.min.js

258 ms

all.css

all.css

60 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

113 ms

engine.js

engine.js

36 ms

util.js

util.js

39 ms

wddx.js

wddx.js

45 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

55 ms

soap-border.png

soap-border.png

209 ms

contact_tab.jpg

contact_tab.jpg

92 ms

logo.png

logo.png

52 ms

logo_hortz_w.png

logo_hortz_w.png

91 ms

logo_hortz_words.png

logo_hortz_words.png

92 ms

4905%20NW%20Kitchen-resized.jpg

4905%20NW%20Kitchen-resized.jpg

307 ms

inman%20stairs.jpg

inman%20stairs.jpg

435 ms

2811%20N%20Thomps-resized.jpg

2811%20N%20Thomps-resized.jpg

336 ms

r59crop.jpg

r59crop.jpg

345 ms

inman2.jpg

inman2.jpg

533 ms

n2.jpg

n2.jpg

342 ms

4139RickenbackerDrive-%20drew.jpg

4139RickenbackerDrive-%20drew.jpg

792 ms

4139RickenbackerDrive-23%20drew.jpg

4139RickenbackerDrive-23%20drew.jpg

558 ms

4905NorthwayDrive-43-resized.jpg

4905NorthwayDrive-43-resized.jpg

399 ms

soapstone%20waterfall%20island.jpg

soapstone%20waterfall%20island.jpg

477 ms

master.jpg

master.jpg

465 ms

mayfair%20kit.jpg

mayfair%20kit.jpg

959 ms

hearst.jpg

hearst.jpg

621 ms

1471HearstDrive-43-resized.jpg

1471HearstDrive-43-resized.jpg

545 ms

1230v2.jpg

1230v2.jpg

1451 ms

Kitchen%20with%20Steel%20Hood.jpg

Kitchen%20with%20Steel%20Hood.jpg

679 ms

cheshire%20cover.jpg

cheshire%20cover.jpg

929 ms

2539DrewValleyRoadCropped-15-resized.jpg

2539DrewValleyRoadCropped-15-resized.jpg

687 ms

2539DrewValleyRoadCropped-21-resized.jpg

2539DrewValleyRoadCropped-21-resized.jpg

729 ms

1230%20Mayfair%20Front%20530.jpg

1230%20Mayfair%20Front%20530.jpg

756 ms

530.png

530.png

912 ms

ssmain2-resized.jpg

ssmain2-resized.jpg

843 ms

25year.png

25year.png

862 ms

homeaid.png

homeaid.png

902 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

935 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

977 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

978 ms

Lato-Reg-webfont.woff

Lato-Reg-webfont.woff

958 ms

backgroundhomecontent.jpg

backgroundhomecontent.jpg

891 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

77 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

78 ms

tracking.js

tracking.js

82 ms

d

d

11 ms

d

d

37 ms

p.gif

p.gif

23 ms

Accessibility Review

waterfordhomes.com accessibility score

88

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.

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

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

waterfordhomes.com best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

waterfordhomes.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Waterfordhomes.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 Waterfordhomes.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

waterfordhomes.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Waterford Homes. 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: