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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

rentafriend.com

RentAFriend To Meet New People And Find Platonic Companionship Companion Caregiver Respite

Page Load Speed

17.6 sec in total

First Response

435 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

8.5 sec

rentafriend.com screenshot

About Website

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

Rent a friend to go to an event or party with you, teach you a new skill or hobby, help you meet new people, show you around town, or just someone for companionship.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rentafriend.com page load time and found that the first response time was 435 ms and then it took 17.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rentafriend.com performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.076

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

42/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rentafriend.com

435 ms

jquery-ui.css

41 ms

2af1b7b2d85bb7d54e897c42d015c71b.css

212 ms

js

1680 ms

e708fc8abc0f5db25aad63086de3d723-1453912062.js

1586 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Rentafriend.com, 17% (7 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Widget.uservoice.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Maps.googleapis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 896.5 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rentafriend.com main page is 1.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 28.3 kB
  • After minification 24.1 kB
  • After compression 6.4 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 4.2 kB, which is 15% 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 21.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 628.2 kB
  • After minification 619.7 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. RentA Friend images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 822.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 402.1 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 822.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 43.5 kB

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 53.3 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Rentafriend.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (38%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RentA Friend. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rentafriend.com

rentafriend.com

435 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

41 ms

2af1b7b2d85bb7d54e897c42d015c71b.css

2af1b7b2d85bb7d54e897c42d015c71b.css

212 ms

js

js

1680 ms

e708fc8abc0f5db25aad63086de3d723-1453912062.js

e708fc8abc0f5db25aad63086de3d723-1453912062.js

1586 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

1585 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

435 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

1586 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

1584 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

1584 ms

6.jpg

6.jpg

1634 ms

7.jpg

7.jpg

1647 ms

news-box.jpg

news-box.jpg

1585 ms

raf_worldwide.png

raf_worldwide.png

1633 ms

H4W3Wm9Jit6RIGVFkOhw.js

H4W3Wm9Jit6RIGVFkOhw.js

1283 ms

background.png

background.png

1264 ms

logo.png

logo.png

1264 ms

bgmenu-normal.png

bgmenu-normal.png

1264 ms

bgmenu-active.png

bgmenu-active.png

1263 ms

bgmenu-special.png

bgmenu-special.png

1552 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

1536 ms

search_by_country.png

search_by_country.png

1537 ms

facebook_icon.png

facebook_icon.png

1536 ms

twitter_icon.png

twitter_icon.png

1255 ms

youtube_48.png

youtube_48.png

1255 ms

DroidSans-webfont.woff

DroidSans-webfont.woff

740 ms

DroidSans-Bold-webfont.woff

DroidSans-Bold-webfont.woff

739 ms

feedback-tab.png

feedback-tab.png

48 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

764 ms

common.js

common.js

111 ms

util.js

util.js

216 ms

controls.js

controls.js

163 ms

places_impl.js

places_impl.js

214 ms

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

238 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

189 ms

tab-left-dark-no-bullhorn-b9a056c28655d222354ef7f6ae68c1a8.png

tab-left-dark-no-bullhorn-b9a056c28655d222354ef7f6ae68c1a8.png

110 ms

ga.js

ga.js

522 ms

track.js

track.js

1557 ms

ajax_slide_loader.gif

ajax_slide_loader.gif

1124 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

113 ms

stats.js

stats.js

15 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

259 ms

Accessibility Review

rentafriend.com accessibility score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rentafriend.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

SEO Factors

rentafriend.com SEO score

50

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rentafriend.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Rentafriend.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

rentafriend.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of RentA Friend. 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: