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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

house2home.ie

House 2 Home- Your one stop shop for home energy upgrades

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

588 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

283 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed House2home.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 588 ms and then it took 3.1 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

house2home.ie performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,130 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.house2home.ie

588 ms

style.css

174 ms

styles.css

240 ms

form_style.css

219 ms

easingslider.min.css

246 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original House2home.ie, 6% (4 requests) were made to Commondatastorage.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (956 ms) belongs to the original domain House2home.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 483.2 kB (30%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of House2home.ie main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 45.9 kB
  • After minification 42.7 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 37.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 78.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 941.9 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. House 2 Home images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 265.0 kB

  • Original 398.6 kB
  • After minification 395.1 kB
  • After compression 133.6 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 265.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 102.5 kB

  • Original 122.1 kB
  • After minification 100.1 kB
  • After compression 19.6 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. House2home.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (61%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House 2 Home. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.house2home.ie

www.house2home.ie

588 ms

style.css

style.css

174 ms

styles.css

styles.css

240 ms

form_style.css

form_style.css

219 ms

easingslider.min.css

easingslider.min.css

246 ms

frontend_style.css

frontend_style.css

262 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

255 ms

style.css

style.css

273 ms

wp-ui.css

wp-ui.css

341 ms

wpui-green.css

wpui-green.css

345 ms

css.php

css.php

408 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

519 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

418 ms

cntctfrm.js

cntctfrm.js

373 ms

jquery.easingslider.min.js

jquery.easingslider.min.js

431 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

463 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

473 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

504 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

505 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

523 ms

accordion.min.js

accordion.min.js

556 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

583 ms

resizable.min.js

resizable.min.js

624 ms

draggable.min.js

draggable.min.js

603 ms

button.min.js

button.min.js

623 ms

position.min.js

position.min.js

617 ms

dialog.min.js

dialog.min.js

647 ms

sortable.min.js

sortable.min.js

678 ms

www.house2home.ie

www.house2home.ie

956 ms

wp-ui.js

wp-ui.js

724 ms

anti-captcha-0.3.js.php

anti-captcha-0.3.js.php

751 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

726 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

802 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

803 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

822 ms

dynamic.to.top.min.js

dynamic.to.top.min.js

825 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

851 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

771 ms

easy-table.css

easy-table.css

645 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

160 ms

newbg1.jpg

newbg1.jpg

148 ms

newbg2.jpg

newbg2.jpg

313 ms

logo.png

logo.png

229 ms

iconright1.jpg

iconright1.jpg

151 ms

iconright2.jpg

iconright2.jpg

150 ms

iconright3.jpg

iconright3.jpg

149 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

240 ms

video_slide1.jpg

video_slide1.jpg

412 ms

slider1.jpg

slider1.jpg

428 ms

slider4.jpg

slider4.jpg

415 ms

slider3.jpg

slider3.jpg

517 ms

sliders5.jpg

sliders5.jpg

448 ms

shadow.png

shadow.png

410 ms

arrow.png

arrow.png

565 ms

bggrass.png

bggrass.png

772 ms

icon1.png

icon1.png

514 ms

icon2.png

icon2.png

563 ms

icon3.png

icon3.png

561 ms

icon4.png

icon4.png

619 ms

partnerlogo.png

partnerlogo.png

620 ms

footer_icon1.png

footer_icon1.png

667 ms

footer_icon2.png

footer_icon2.png

670 ms

footer_icon3.png

footer_icon3.png

668 ms

footer_icon4.png

footer_icon4.png

704 ms

matrix-logo1.png

matrix-logo1.png

767 ms

0f2a5369-e138-45d9-a19d-ece1f5a296fa.js

0f2a5369-e138-45d9-a19d-ece1f5a296fa.js

162 ms

nav-icon-inactive.png

nav-icon-inactive.png

667 ms

help_left_en.png

help_left_en.png

22 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

16 ms

help_left_en.png

help_left_en.png

11 ms

Accessibility Review

house2home.ie accessibility score

79

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

house2home.ie 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

house2home.ie SEO score

84

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

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 House2home.ie 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 House2home.ie 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

house2home.ie

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of House 2 Home. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: