Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

urbanhomes.co.nz

Home Builders Wellington, New House Builders & Construction

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

458 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

188 ms

urbanhomes.co.nz screenshot

About Website

Welcome to urbanhomes.co.nz homepage info - get ready to check Urban Home S best content right away, or after learning these important things about urbanhomes.co.nz

Home builders Wellington: Certified builders of quality custom and kit set homes, providing design and build solutions for new homes across greater Wellington, NZ.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Urbanhomes.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 458 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

urbanhomes.co.nz performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.159

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

urbanhomes.co.nz

458 ms

www.urbanhomes.co.nz

434 ms

www.urbanhomes.co.nz

878 ms

new-style.css

221 ms

nivo-slider.css

440 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Urbanhomes.co.nz, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Resene.co.nz. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Urbanhomes.co.nz.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.3 kB (2%)

Content Size

600.2 kB

After Optimization

587.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Urbanhomes.co.nz main page is 600.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 504.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 11.1 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 8.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 504.6 kB
  • After minification 502.5 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. Urban Home S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 808 B

  • Original 79.1 kB
  • After minification 79.1 kB
  • After compression 78.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 756 B

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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. Urbanhomes.co.nz needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 756 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (19%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Urban Home S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

urbanhomes.co.nz accessibility score

71

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

urbanhomes.co.nz best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

urbanhomes.co.nz SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Urbanhomes.co.nz 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 Urbanhomes.co.nz 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 Urban Home S. 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: