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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

thehomestead.com

The Omni Homestead Resort | Resorts in Virginia

Page Load Speed

64.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

59.8 sec

About Website

Welcome to thehomestead.com homepage info - get ready to check The Homestead best content right away, or after learning these important things about thehomestead.com

Book your stay at The Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, VA. Enjoy mountain views, golf, a spa & historic warm spring pools at our Virginia resort.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehomestead.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 63.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thehomestead.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.099

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value95.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thehomestead.com

1648 ms

homestead-virginia

265 ms

otSDKStub.js

42 ms

bundle

55 ms

css2

86 ms

Our browser made a total of 239 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thehomestead.com, 70% (168 requests) were made to Omnihotels.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehomestead.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.8 MB (16%)

Content Size

35.7 MB

After Optimization

29.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thehomestead.com main page is 35.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 35.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 302.3 kB

  • Original 356.9 kB
  • After minification 272.3 kB
  • After compression 54.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 84.6 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 302.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 5.5 MB

  • Original 35.0 MB
  • After minification 29.5 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. Obviously, The Homestead needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.5 MB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 398.0 kB
  • After minification 398.0 kB
  • After compression 394.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 838 B

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 5.2 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Thehomestead.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 838 B or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (28%)

Requests Now

223

After Optimization

161

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 223 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The 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 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thehomestead.com accessibility score

67

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

thehomestead.com best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thehomestead.com SEO score

75

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

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 Thehomestead.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 Thehomestead.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

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