Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

collegerentals.com

Off-Campus Housing and Student Apartments | College Rentals

Page Load Speed

667 ms in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

258 ms

Page Rendered

385 ms

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About Website

Welcome to collegerentals.com homepage info - get ready to check College Rentals best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about collegerentals.com

Find off-campus housing and student apartments near local colleges and universities by searching rentals based on price, pet-friendly, furnished, amenities, and more criteria.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegerentals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 643 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegerentals.com performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.5 s

58/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegerentals.com

24 ms

www.collegerentals.com

79 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

bat.js

29 ms

vendor-v17135439434723.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Collegerentals.com, 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Bat.bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (86 ms) belongs to the original domain Collegerentals.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 98.8 kB (24%)

Content Size

408.7 kB

After Optimization

309.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Collegerentals.com main page is 408.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 191.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 88.7 kB

  • Original 109.0 kB
  • After minification 90.7 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 18.2 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 88.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 177 B

  • Original 191.8 kB
  • After minification 191.7 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. College Rentals images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 107.9 kB
  • After minification 107.9 kB
  • After compression 98.0 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 4 (24%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Rentals. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

collegerentals.com accessibility score

71

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

collegerentals.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

collegerentals.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 Collegerentals.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 Collegerentals.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 description is not detected on the main page of College Rentals. 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: