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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

bearcribs.com

Baylor Apartments & Off-Campus Housing - Waco TX | Bear Cribs

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

877 ms

Page Rendered

131 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bearcribs.com page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 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

bearcribs.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

87/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bearcribs.com

345 ms

css

33 ms

styles.css

275 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

278 ms

handlebars.min.js

346 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Bearcribs.com, 9% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (353 ms) belongs to the original domain Bearcribs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

785.9 kB

After Optimization

525.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Bearcribs.com main page is 785.9 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 739.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

  • Original 46.7 kB
  • After minification 33.2 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 29% 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 41.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 219.6 kB

  • Original 739.2 kB
  • After minification 519.6 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, Bear Cribs needs image optimization as it can save up to 219.6 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (26%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bear Cribs. 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.

Network Requests Diagram

bearcribs.com

bearcribs.com

345 ms

css

css

33 ms

styles.css

styles.css

275 ms

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

jquery-3.2.1.min.js

278 ms

handlebars.min.js

handlebars.min.js

346 ms

search.js

search.js

209 ms

properties.js

properties.js

353 ms

sponsors.js

sponsors.js

208 ms

js

js

60 ms

logo.png

logo.png

105 ms

sort-toggle.png

sort-toggle.png

104 ms

property-of-the-month-241-2.png

property-of-the-month-241-2.png

140 ms

management-of-the-month-2-2.png

management-of-the-month-2-2.png

140 ms

property-of-the-month-241-1.png

property-of-the-month-241-1.png

279 ms

property-of-the-month-badge.png

property-of-the-month-badge.png

74 ms

management-of-the-month-2-1.png

management-of-the-month-2-1.png

177 ms

apartment-special-offers-big.png

apartment-special-offers-big.png

115 ms

icon-cat.png

icon-cat.png

140 ms

icon-dog.png

icon-dog.png

109 ms

bg-footer.jpg

bg-footer.jpg

207 ms

font

font

16 ms

font

font

37 ms

Accessibility Review

bearcribs.com accessibility score

59

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

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>).

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

bearcribs.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

bearcribs.com SEO score

85

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

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 Bearcribs.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 Bearcribs.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

bearcribs.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bear Cribs. 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: