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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

homes24.co.uk

Homes24.co.uk

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

262 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

156 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homes24.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 262 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homes24.co.uk performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homes24.co.uk

262 ms

www.homes24.co.uk

570 ms

css

41 ms

common.css

23 ms

search-theme.css

204 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Homes24.co.uk, 19% (9 requests) were made to C.zoocdn.com and 19% (9 requests) were made to Li.zoocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (570 ms) belongs to the original domain Homes24.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 540.4 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

485.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homes24.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 307.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 264.8 kB

  • Original 289.7 kB
  • After minification 256.9 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 32.8 kB, which is 11% 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 264.8 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 195.8 kB
  • After minification 192.5 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. Homes24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 85.7 kB

  • Original 307.5 kB
  • After minification 304.6 kB
  • After compression 221.7 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 85.7 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 186.5 kB

  • Original 233.0 kB
  • After minification 228.7 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Homes24.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 186.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (71%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homes24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homes24.co.uk

homes24.co.uk

262 ms

www.homes24.co.uk

www.homes24.co.uk

570 ms

css

css

41 ms

common.css

common.css

23 ms

search-theme.css

search-theme.css

204 ms

theme.css

theme.css

19 ms

whitelabel.css

whitelabel.css

21 ms

E-v1.js

E-v1.js

44 ms

s_code.js

s_code.js

227 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

35 ms

main.js

main.js

11 ms

dc.js

dc.js

94 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

93 ms

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80 ms

zoopla_webbanner.jpg

zoopla_webbanner.jpg

191 ms

play_button.png

play_button.png

190 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

68 ms

logo-zoopla.svg

logo-zoopla.svg

71 ms

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72 ms

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185 ms

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73 ms

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72 ms

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188 ms

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186 ms

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72 ms

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82 ms

iframe_shim

iframe_shim

32 ms

ljsz8pgiec.json

ljsz8pgiec.json

64 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

36 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

51 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

34 ms

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34 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

24 ms

ld.js

ld.js

214 ms

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s47580358728300

55 ms

socialbar-v1.js

socialbar-v1.js

51 ms

ec.js

ec.js

44 ms

00d584f1801e1da133f9398e70b6bf47.js

00d584f1801e1da133f9398e70b6bf47.js

288 ms

search.js

search.js

57 ms

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157 ms

collect

collect

145 ms

collect

collect

156 ms

event

event

36 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

46 ms

event

event

179 ms

geolocAndWeather.php

geolocAndWeather.php

170 ms

Accessibility Review

homes24.co.uk accessibility score

90

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

homes24.co.uk 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

homes24.co.uk SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Homes24.co.uk 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 Homes24.co.uk 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

homes24.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Homes24. 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: