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houseshare.com

SpareRoom for flatshare, house share, flat share & rooms for rent

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

257 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houseshare.com page load time and found that the first response time was 257 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houseshare.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.houseshare.com

257 ms

screen_houseshare.css

233 ms

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

323 ms

jquery.autocomplete.pack.js

234 ms

autocompleter.js

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Houseshare.com, 48% (14 requests) were made to Images2.houseshare.com and 41% (12 requests) were made to Photos2.houseshare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (338 ms) relates to the external source Photos2.houseshare.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.1 kB (62%)

Content Size

229.5 kB

After Optimization

87.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Houseshare.com main page is 229.5 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 112.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 15.6 kB
  • After minification 12.4 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 3.2 kB, which is 20% 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 12.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 37.1 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, House Share needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 74.0 kB

  • Original 112.0 kB
  • After minification 107.0 kB
  • After compression 38.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 74.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 54.8 kB
  • After minification 42.8 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. Houseshare.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (29%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House 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 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.houseshare.com

www.houseshare.com

257 ms

screen_houseshare.css

screen_houseshare.css

233 ms

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

jquery-1.4.3.min.js

323 ms

jquery.autocomplete.pack.js

jquery.autocomplete.pack.js

234 ms

autocompleter.js

autocompleter.js

236 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

237 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

21 ms

screen.css

screen.css

94 ms

reset.css

reset.css

92 ms

jquery.autocomplete.css

jquery.autocomplete.css

93 ms

file_types.css

file_types.css

95 ms

10321924.jpg

10321924.jpg

190 ms

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196 ms

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198 ms

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1457345.jpg

198 ms

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200 ms

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10861072.jpg

206 ms

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329 ms

10837774.jpg

10837774.jpg

334 ms

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334 ms

7412101.jpg

7412101.jpg

336 ms

1530311.jpg

1530311.jpg

337 ms

1328919.jpg

1328919.jpg

338 ms

houseshare_logo.png

houseshare_logo.png

93 ms

keys_bg.png

keys_bg.png

94 ms

sticker1.png

sticker1.png

96 ms

free_to_use.png

free_to_use.png

93 ms

scribble4.png

scribble4.png

95 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

10 ms

SEO Factors

houseshare.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houseshare.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 Houseshare.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

houseshare.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of House Share. 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: