Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

howarthhomes.co.uk

Residential Developers | Howarth Homes Plc | New Homes for sale

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

883 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

166 ms

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About Website

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Howarth Homes is a multi award-winning, cutting edge residential property developer creating exceptional homes in exceptional locations which also represent outstanding investment opportunities, acros...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howarthhomes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 883 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howarthhomes.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.howarthhomes.co.uk

883 ms

style.css

602 ms

styles.css

1357 ms

mappress.css

1521 ms

easy-modal.min.css

2357 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Howarthhomes.co.uk, 14% (4 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Howarthhomes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.6 kB (59%)

Content Size

992.3 kB

After Optimization

408.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Howarthhomes.co.uk main page is 992.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 753.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 19.5 kB

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 21.3 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.3 kB, which is 13% 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 19.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 190.9 kB
  • After minification 190.9 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. Howarth Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 545.0 kB

  • Original 753.3 kB
  • After minification 605.1 kB
  • After compression 208.3 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 545.0 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 23.6 kB
  • After minification 15.2 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Howarthhomes.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (67%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howarth 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 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howarthhomes.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

howarthhomes.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

howarthhomes.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Howarthhomes.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 Howarthhomes.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

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