Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

craigslist.org

craigslist: frederick jobs, apartments, for sale, services, community, and events

Page Load Speed

21 sec in total

First Response

101 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

92 ms

craigslist.org screenshot

About Website

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craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, services, local community, and events

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Key Findings

We analyzed Craigslist.org page load time and found that the first response time was 101 ms and then it took 20.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

craigslist.org performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

frederick.craigslist.org

101 ms

116dc1bb525023b5d7511eef791562b26294b3d9.js

25 ms

manifest.js

37 ms

4d2c198fd3cfc770078ab4e9002868d7c45ece29.css

38 ms

05aa807e117894e0101543a0c7da37ef169e84fd.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 8 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Craigslist.org, 13% (1 request) were made to Frederick.craigslist.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (101 ms) relates to the external source Frederick.craigslist.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.7 kB (83%)

Content Size

64.8 kB

After Optimization

11.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Craigslist.org main page is 64.8 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. 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. HTML takes 64.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 53.7 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 62.0 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. 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 53.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (57%)

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Craigslist. 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

craigslist.org accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

craigslist.org 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

craigslist.org 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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Craigslist.org 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 Craigslist.org 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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: