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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

bostonpads.com

Boston Pads - Boston's Largest Apartment and Real Estate Portal

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

852 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bostonpads.com page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 3.8 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

bostonpads.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,630 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bostonpads.com

97 ms

bostonpads.com

98 ms

basic.min.css

108 ms

theme-ie11.min.css

134 ms

theme.min.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Bostonpads.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Google.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 206.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bostonpads.com main page is 2.0 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 992.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 163.4 kB

  • Original 197.1 kB
  • After minification 197.0 kB
  • After compression 33.8 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 163.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 992.6 kB
  • After minification 992.6 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. Boston Pads images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 663.7 kB
  • After minification 663.7 kB
  • After compression 627.9 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 98.8 kB
  • After minification 96.8 kB
  • After compression 91.7 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. Bostonpads.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (55%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Boston Pads. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bostonpads.com

bostonpads.com

97 ms

bostonpads.com

bostonpads.com

98 ms

basic.min.css

basic.min.css

108 ms

theme-ie11.min.css

theme-ie11.min.css

134 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

129 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

118 ms

reset.css

reset.css

52 ms

style.css

style.css

79 ms

style.css

style.css

110 ms

dynamic-css.css

dynamic-css.css

198 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

40 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

51 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

121 ms

formValidation.min.css

formValidation.min.css

185 ms

wp-mp-register-login-public.css

wp-mp-register-login-public.css

209 ms

wp-mp-register-login-modified-public.css

wp-mp-register-login-modified-public.css

127 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

190 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

209 ms

custom.css

custom.css

140 ms

basic.min.css

basic.min.css

156 ms

theme.min.css

theme.min.css

172 ms

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

jquery-3.6.0.min.js

175 ms

jquery.json.min.js

jquery.json.min.js

280 ms

gravityforms.min.js

gravityforms.min.js

238 ms

utils.min.js

utils.min.js

263 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

275 ms

Chart.min.js

Chart.min.js

280 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

306 ms

user_login.js

user_login.js

238 ms

js

js

80 ms

api.js

api.js

39 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

235 ms

cpt_plans.js

cpt_plans.js

249 ms

jquery.maskedinput.min.js

jquery.maskedinput.min.js

263 ms

placeholders.jquery.min.js

placeholders.jquery.min.js

396 ms

vendor-theme.min.js

vendor-theme.min.js

300 ms

scripts-theme.min.js

scripts-theme.min.js

398 ms

api.js

api.js

74 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

397 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

31 ms

select2.full.min.js

select2.full.min.js

400 ms

custom-comparison.js

custom-comparison.js

329 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

398 ms

custom.js

custom.js

372 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

321 ms

maxmegamenu.js

maxmegamenu.js

314 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

361 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

358 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

300 ms

vc-waypoints.min.js

vc-waypoints.min.js

455 ms

vc_grid.min.js

vc_grid.min.js

456 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

86 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

130 ms

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233 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

235 ms

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233 ms

view-homes-for-sale.png

view-homes-for-sale.png

232 ms

view-landlord-services.png

view-landlord-services.png

234 ms

view-investment-services.png

view-investment-services.png

436 ms

Boston-Pads-Mobile.png

Boston-Pads-Mobile.png

438 ms

real-estate-database-listings.png

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439 ms

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motley-fool-logo-tile.jpg

439 ms

Forbes-logo-tile.jpg

Forbes-logo-tile.jpg

436 ms

insider-logo-tile.jpg

insider-logo-tile.jpg

440 ms

boston-globe-logo-tile.jpg

boston-globe-logo-tile.jpg

441 ms

WBZ-CBS-Boston-logo-tile.jpg

WBZ-CBS-Boston-logo-tile.jpg

441 ms

NBC-Boston-logo-tile.jpg

NBC-Boston-logo-tile.jpg

441 ms

WCVB-ABC-Boston-logo-tile.jpg

WCVB-ABC-Boston-logo-tile.jpg

441 ms

Boston-Herald-logo-tile.jpg

Boston-Herald-logo-tile.jpg

442 ms

masslive-logo-tile-1.jpg

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442 ms

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444 ms

Boston-Curbed-logo-tile.jpg

Boston-Curbed-logo-tile.jpg

443 ms

bostinno-logo-tile.jpg

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608 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

78 ms

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547 ms

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546 ms

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631 ms

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631 ms

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542 ms

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628 ms

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628 ms

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630 ms

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626 ms

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698 ms

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fa-regular-400.woff

668 ms

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663 ms

somerville-ma-featured-area.jpg

somerville-ma-featured-area.jpg

664 ms

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south-boston-ma-featured-area.jpg

567 ms

boston-apartments-skyline.jpg

boston-apartments-skyline.jpg

565 ms

Boston-State-House-Bill-h4774.jpg

Boston-State-House-Bill-h4774.jpg

668 ms

Boston-apartments-1.jpg

Boston-apartments-1.jpg

668 ms

equal-housing-opportunity.png

equal-housing-opportunity.png

668 ms

boston-ma-apartments-for-rent.jpg

boston-ma-apartments-for-rent.jpg

668 ms

down-arrow.svg

down-arrow.svg

667 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

162 ms

Boston-Pads-Free-Account.jpg

Boston-Pads-Free-Account.jpg

467 ms

js

js

231 ms

destination

destination

312 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

307 ms

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fa-brands-400.woff

635 ms

collect

collect

152 ms

125 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

1223 ms

Accessibility Review

bostonpads.com accessibility score

79

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

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

bostonpads.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bostonpads.com SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Bostonpads.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 Bostonpads.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

bostonpads.com

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