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Visit home.24.comWe analyzed Home.24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 676 ms and then it took 2.1 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. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Home.24.com rating and web reputation
home.24.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Home.24.com, 33% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 8% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (933 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.24.co.za.
Page size can be reduced by 3.5 kB (65%)
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1.9 kB
In fact, the total size of Home.24.com main page is 5.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 4.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 622 B
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 622 B or 54% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 2.9 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. Home.24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.9 kB or 68% of the original size.
We found no issues to fix!
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The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home 24. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.
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styles.css
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reset.css
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home.png
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redirect.png
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bg.jpg
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logos.png
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museosans-300.otf
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home.24.com SEO score
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UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Home.24.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Home.24.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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Home 24. 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: