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Report Summary

  • 76

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

browse4homes.co.uk

browse4homes; estate agents uk, letting agents uk, houses in london, flats in london

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

326 ms

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About Website

Welcome to browse4homes.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Browse 4 Homes best content right away, or after learning these important things about browse4homes.co.uk

Browse4homes is one of Uk's fastest growing property portals, find estate agents london, letting agents london, houses in london, flats in london, flats in Uk.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Browse4homes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

browse4homes.co.uk performance score

76

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.3 s

29/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.074

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

browse4homes.co.uk

2232 ms

nav.css

188 ms

style.css

374 ms

dropkick.css

281 ms

jquery.min.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Browse4homes.co.uk, 7% (2 requests) were made to Zoopla.co.uk and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Browse4homes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.6 kB (60%)

Content Size

261.0 kB

After Optimization

105.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Browse4homes.co.uk main page is 261.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 111.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 45.8 kB
  • After minification 43.1 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 38.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 54.5 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. Browse 4 Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 44.4 kB
  • After minification 37.2 kB
  • After compression 26.3 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 18.0 kB or 41% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 94.2 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 91.7 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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. Browse4homes.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (57%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Browse 4 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

browse4homes.co.uk

browse4homes.co.uk

2232 ms

nav.css

nav.css

188 ms

style.css

style.css

374 ms

dropkick.css

dropkick.css

281 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

62 ms

showHide.js

showHide.js

195 ms

jquery.dropkick-1.0.0.js

jquery.dropkick-1.0.0.js

402 ms

scrollability.min.js

scrollability.min.js

214 ms

ls.js

ls.js

274 ms

ls.css

ls.css

666 ms

min_css.css

min_css.css

324 ms

jquery-ui-1.css

jquery-ui-1.css

554 ms

richlist.js

richlist.js

506 ms

values.js

values.js

195 ms

hotframe-n.gif

hotframe-n.gif

113 ms

logo.png

logo.png

95 ms

facebookIco1.png

facebookIco1.png

114 ms

twitterIco1.png

twitterIco1.png

102 ms

trans.gif

trans.gif

187 ms

browse4hlistings.JPG

browse4hlistings.JPG

421 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

10 ms

collect

collect

14 ms

ls_patterntile.gif

ls_patterntile.gif

130 ms

property_active.png

property_active.png

123 ms

tenants.png

tenants.png

131 ms

landlords.png

landlords.png

134 ms

agents.png

agents.png

138 ms

57

57

191 ms

dropdown01.png

dropdown01.png

181 ms

Accessibility Review

browse4homes.co.uk accessibility score

54

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

browse4homes.co.uk best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

browse4homes.co.uk SEO score

50

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Browse4homes.co.uk 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 Browse4homes.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

browse4homes.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Browse 4 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: