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thehousingspot.com

Search for BYU Contracted Off-Campus Housing and Contracts | The Housing Spot

Page Load Speed

26.9 sec in total

First Response

209 ms

Resources Loaded

26.5 sec

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

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Free online college housing search engine dedicated to Brigham Young University where students can buy and sell contracts, and landlords/property owners can advertise their housing directly to their t...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thehousingspot.com page load time and found that the first response time was 209 ms and then it took 26.6 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

thehousingspot.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thehousingspot.com

209 ms

www.thehousingspot.com

12404 ms

ths.css

120 ms

navigation.css

119 ms

jquery.js

427 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Thehousingspot.com, 8% (3 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thehousingspot.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.4 kB (60%)

Content Size

278.9 kB

After Optimization

111.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Thehousingspot.com main page is 278.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 189.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 46.0 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 34.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 30.4 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, The Housing Spot needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 189.0 kB
  • After minification 185.8 kB
  • After compression 68.8 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 120.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-95%

Potential reduce by 8.6 kB

  • Original 9.1 kB
  • After minification 962 B
  • After compression 432 B

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. Thehousingspot.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.6 kB or 95% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (45%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Housing Spot. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Thehousingspot.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 Thehousingspot.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 The Housing Spot. 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: