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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

apartmentlist.com

Apartment List - More than 5 Million Apartments for Rent

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

82 ms

Resources Loaded

881 ms

Page Rendered

191 ms

apartmentlist.com screenshot

About Website

Visit apartmentlist.com now to see the best up-to-date Apartment List content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about apartmentlist.com

Apartment List is a free service that helps you find the perfect apartment. Click to view move-in specials, photos, floorplans, rates, amenities and more...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apartmentlist.com page load time and found that the first response time was 82 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apartmentlist.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unsupported-browser

82 ms

bootstrap-57fd2649963cdca410767b078c46fd6c.css

50 ms

application-2dbfab981dd55708d7cf40284b8e5833.css

63 ms

badge_appstore-lrg.png

91 ms

desert-d8e71d64588d77f0f987054a28b500b4.jpg

49 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Apartmentlist.com, 33% (2 requests) were made to Cdn1.apartmentlist.com and 17% (1 request) were made to Cdn0.apartmentlist.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (91 ms) relates to the external source Linkmaker.itunes.apple.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 373.1 kB (62%)

Content Size

601.5 kB

After Optimization

228.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apartmentlist.com main page is 601.5 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 470.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. 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 1.4 kB or 57% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 125.2 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. Apartment List images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 368.2 kB

  • Original 470.3 kB
  • After minification 468.9 kB
  • After compression 102.1 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. Apartmentlist.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 368.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

5

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 5 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apartment List. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

unsupported-browser

unsupported-browser

82 ms

bootstrap-57fd2649963cdca410767b078c46fd6c.css

bootstrap-57fd2649963cdca410767b078c46fd6c.css

50 ms

application-2dbfab981dd55708d7cf40284b8e5833.css

application-2dbfab981dd55708d7cf40284b8e5833.css

63 ms

badge_appstore-lrg.png

badge_appstore-lrg.png

91 ms

desert-d8e71d64588d77f0f987054a28b500b4.jpg

desert-d8e71d64588d77f0f987054a28b500b4.jpg

49 ms

logo-200x33-f877234af1ae382d7d62384b122fb2b8.svg

logo-200x33-f877234af1ae382d7d62384b122fb2b8.svg

4 ms

Accessibility Review

apartmentlist.com accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

apartmentlist.com 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

apartmentlist.com 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

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 Apartmentlist.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 Apartmentlist.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

apartmentlist.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Apartment List. 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: