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Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

homes.com

Homes.com: Homes for Sale, Homes for Rent, Real Estate

Page Load Speed

57.5 sec in total

First Response

406 ms

Resources Loaded

37.7 sec

Page Rendered

19.4 sec

homes.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 406 ms and then it took 57.1 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

homes.com performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.homes.com

406 ms

open-sans.css

68 ms

app.css

284 ms

main.css

360 ms

modernizr.js

359 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Homes.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to and 11% (4 requests) were made to Blog-cdn.static-homes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11 sec) relates to the external source Stats.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.5 MB (40%)

Content Size

11.2 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homes.com main page is 11.2 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. 85% 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 5.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 71.9 kB

  • Original 88.2 kB
  • After minification 69.5 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 18.7 kB, which is 21% 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 71.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 68.1 kB

  • Original 5.3 MB
  • After minification 5.3 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. Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 3.6 MB

  • Original 4.7 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 3.6 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 743.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 304.8 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. Homes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 743.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (24%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.homes.com

www.homes.com

406 ms

open-sans.css

open-sans.css

68 ms

app.css

app.css

284 ms

main.css

main.css

360 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

359 ms

iMAWebCookie.js

iMAWebCookie.js

10502 ms

main.js

main.js

2114 ms

socialize.js

socialize.js

10540 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

8685 ms

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vIXcTtBBgABVDvojgAA

113 ms

UZz8AZkYTjIAAVQ76I4AAA==

UZz8AZkYTjIAAVQ76I4AAA==

111 ms

dnf0AhmVG+gAAAAABVDvokAAA

dnf0AhmVG+gAAAAABVDvokAAA

87 ms

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87 ms

Api.aspx

Api.aspx

5841 ms

experience

experience

1603 ms

nr-1044.min.js

nr-1044.min.js

3948 ms

collect

collect

2743 ms

search-header--directive.html

search-header--directive.html

2168 ms

home.html

home.html

2168 ms

home-page-footer--directive.html

home-page-footer--directive.html

2155 ms

national

national

1808 ms

homescom_logo.png

homescom_logo.png

9444 ms

collect

collect

10990 ms

homes-heart-harvey.png

homes-heart-harvey.png

2883 ms

jquery-1.6.2.min.js

jquery-1.6.2.min.js

2882 ms

bigstock-Entrance-Hall-And-Dining-Room-8477863-300x200.jpg

bigstock-Entrance-Hall-And-Dining-Room-8477863-300x200.jpg

1792 ms

bigstock-Smiling-Young-Couple-Sitting-O-184525666-300x200.jpg

bigstock-Smiling-Young-Couple-Sitting-O-184525666-300x200.jpg

1838 ms

bigstock-Boys-Bedroom-1527933-267x200.jpg

bigstock-Boys-Bedroom-1527933-267x200.jpg

1837 ms

app_promo_home.jpg

app_promo_home.jpg

1594 ms

homepage-hero04.jpg

homepage-hero04.jpg

1791 ms

equal_housing_opportunity.gif

equal_housing_opportunity.gif

1594 ms

ad-choices.png

ad-choices.png

1524 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

542 ms

activityi;src=5670249;type=pagev0;cat=total0;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=4028817049693.3164

activityi;src=5670249;type=pagev0;cat=total0;dc_lat=;dc_rdid=;tag_for_child_directed_treatment=;ord=4028817049693.3164

1509 ms

homes-icons.woff

homes-icons.woff

1055 ms

51800fdd97

51800fdd97

2082 ms

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51800fdd97

1731 ms

Accessibility Review

homes.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

homes.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

homes.com SEO score

100

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homes.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 Homes.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

homes.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Homes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: