Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

rentbay.co.za

Free residential advertising portal for property to rent - TPN Rentbay

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

663 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

About Website

Welcome to rentbay.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Rentbay best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about rentbay.co.za

FREE property advertising portal to search for residential property to rent in South Africa. Find or search all listed property to rent.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rentbay.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 663 ms and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rentbay.co.za performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rentbay.co.za

663 ms

www.rentbay.co.za

1431 ms

css

439 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

34 ms

js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Rentbay.co.za, 12% (3 requests) were made to Rentimg.tpn.co.za and 8% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Rentimg.tpn.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

980.7 kB

After Optimization

904.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Rentbay.co.za main page is 980.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 763.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 68.5 kB

  • Original 78.0 kB
  • After minification 64.6 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.5 kB, which is 17% 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 68.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 763.3 kB
  • After minification 756.4 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. Rentbay images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 139.4 kB
  • After minification 139.4 kB
  • After compression 138.2 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rentbay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rentbay.co.za accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

rentbay.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

rentbay.co.za SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rentbay.co.za 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 Rentbay.co.za 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 data is detected on the main page of Rentbay. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: