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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

roomshare.com

Landing · RoomShare

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

51 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Roomshare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 51 ms and then it took 4 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

roomshare.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

roomshare.com

51 ms

www.roommates.com

239 ms

application-61c652c9ee1e69e798fe9e75b0a5ae664a9f113a970f7b1ac7bdaf4616001e4f.css

180 ms

sharethis.js

117 ms

logo-mobile-83250601d4b9bf371f039d192bd23ba555195b8c8519a843b93be154eb306fef.png

474 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Roomshare.com, 51% (21 requests) were made to Www-static.roommates.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (840 ms) relates to the external source Www-static.roommates.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 106.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

434.5 kB

After Optimization

328.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Roomshare.com main page is 434.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 209.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.6 kB

  • Original 61.1 kB
  • After minification 61.1 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 49.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 209.6 kB
  • After minification 187.0 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, Room Share needs image optimization as it can save up to 22.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 93.8 kB
  • After minification 93.7 kB
  • After compression 59.5 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 34.3 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 70.0 kB
  • After minification 70.0 kB
  • After compression 70.0 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. Roomshare.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (58%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Room Share. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

roomshare.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

roomshare.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

roomshare.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Roomshare.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 Roomshare.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

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