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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

appartments.com

The #1 Roommate Finder and Rooms for Rent Website

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

37 ms

Resources Loaded

983 ms

Page Rendered

664 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Appartments.com page load time and found that the first response time was 37 ms and then it took 1.6 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

appartments.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

54/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,370 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.058

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.2 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

appartments.com

37 ms

www.roommates.com

29 ms

www.roommates.com

361 ms

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56 ms

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88 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Appartments.com, 76% (29 requests) were made to Www-static.roommates.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Roommates.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (420 ms) relates to the external source A.roommates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

454.1 kB

After Optimization

396.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Appartments.com main page is 454.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 252.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 50.4 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 39.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 87.5 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. Obviously, Appartments needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.0 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 188 B

  • Original 252.0 kB
  • After minification 252.0 kB
  • After compression 251.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 46.1 kB
  • After minification 46.1 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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. Appartments.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Appartments. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

appartments.com

appartments.com

37 ms

www.roommates.com

www.roommates.com

29 ms

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www.roommates.com

361 ms

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56 ms

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88 ms

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visits

visits

74 ms

Accessibility Review

appartments.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

appartments.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

appartments.com SEO score

96

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

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 Appartments.com 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 Appartments.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

appartments.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Appartments. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: