Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

octoberresearch.com

October Research - Educating and Empowering Real Estate Professionals

Page Load Speed

594 ms in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

317 ms

Page Rendered

125 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Octoberresearch.com page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 442 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

octoberresearch.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.3 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

octoberresearch.com

152 ms

october.css

69 ms

nav.js

71 ms

SpryMenuBar.js

105 ms

ORC_SpryMenuBarVertical.css

103 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Octoberresearch.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (152 ms) belongs to the original domain Octoberresearch.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 39.6 kB (40%)

Content Size

98.8 kB

After Optimization

59.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Octoberresearch.com main page is 98.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 5.6 kB, which is 31% 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 14.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 888 B

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 33.9 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. October Research images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 33.3 kB
  • After minification 26.2 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 13.4 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 7.1 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Octoberresearch.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (54%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of October Research. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

octoberresearch.com accessibility score

97

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

octoberresearch.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

octoberresearch.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Octoberresearch.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 Octoberresearch.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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