Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

homefinder.ca

Home - Metroland Media

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

homefinder.ca screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homefinder.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homefinder.ca performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.204

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homefinder.ca

117 ms

www.homefinder.ca

943 ms

hf-c03e223762c17a209905da5fc5af3ad3.css

247 ms

front-4e2eb91b5975046b8bc3ea293c0c77e7.js

333 ms

s_code.js

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 570 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (481 requests) were addressed to the original Homefinder.ca, 5% (29 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 1% (6 requests) were made to Ads.pictela.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (943 ms) belongs to the original domain Homefinder.ca.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.8 MB (37%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Homefinder.ca main page is 5.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 368.1 kB

  • Original 436.2 kB
  • After minification 433.6 kB
  • After compression 68.1 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 368.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Home Finder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 508.9 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 1.3 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 163.6 kB

  • Original 202.3 kB
  • After minification 201.5 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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. Homefinder.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 163.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 113 (20%)

Requests Now

561

After Optimization

448

The browser has sent 561 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Finder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homefinder.ca accessibility score

95

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

homefinder.ca 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

SEO Factors

homefinder.ca SEO score

88

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

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 Homefinder.ca 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 Homefinder.ca 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 Home Finder. 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: