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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

homestead.org

The Original Homestead.org | Learn Homesteading Skills Online

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

744 ms

About Website

Visit homestead.org now to see the best up-to-date Homestead content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about homestead.org

Homesteading tips for Beginners and Experts. Articles, on how to learn homesteading skills. The Homesteader's Free Library since 1997.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homestead.org page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 2.2 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

homestead.org performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,450 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.327

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homestead.org

280 ms

analytics.js

31 ms

sdk.js

281 ms

adpeeps.php

49 ms

email4_trans.gif

128 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 16% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Homestead.org, 15% (16 requests) were made to Adpeepshosted.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Dsum.casalemedia.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (590 ms) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 331.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

973.5 kB

After Optimization

642.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homestead.org main page is 973.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 467.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 118.1 kB

  • Original 145.5 kB
  • After minification 140.6 kB
  • After compression 27.4 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 118.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 467.6 kB
  • After minification 452.7 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. Homestead images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 193.6 kB

  • Original 354.9 kB
  • After minification 347.5 kB
  • After compression 161.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 193.6 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 4.6 kB
  • After compression 844 B

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. Homestead.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (42%)

Requests Now

92

After Optimization

53

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 92 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homestead. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

homestead.org accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

homestead.org 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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

homestead.org SEO score

93

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homestead.org 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 Homestead.org main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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