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explorer.mihomes.com

New Home Builder | New Home Construction - M/I Homes

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

112 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

explorer.mihomes.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Explorer.mihomes.com page load time and found that the first response time was 112 ms and then it took 1.8 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

explorer.mihomes.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.mihomes.com

112 ms

www.mihomes.com

247 ms

all.css

111 ms

master_jquery-1.10.2.js

188 ms

fonts.css

263 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Explorer.mihomes.com, 9% (8 requests) were made to and 8% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (297 ms) relates to the external source Mihomes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 843.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Explorer.mihomes.com main page is 4.7 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 93.3 kB

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 110.4 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. 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 93.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Explorer M I Homes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 621.0 kB

  • Original 874.1 kB
  • After minification 803.8 kB
  • After compression 253.1 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 621.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 122.5 kB

  • Original 283.3 kB
  • After minification 282.1 kB
  • After compression 160.8 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. Explorer.mihomes.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 122.5 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (43%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

40

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explorer M I 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 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

explorer.mihomes.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Explorer.mihomes.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Explorer.mihomes.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Explorer M I 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: