Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

unitedrentals.com

United Rentals - Industrial & Construction Equipment Rentals & Tools

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

84 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

347 ms

unitedrentals.com screenshot

About Website

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

United Rentals provides 3300+ equipment and tool classes for industrial & construction sites across the United States and Canada. Rent heavy equipment now.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unitedrentals.com page load time and found that the first response time was 84 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

unitedrentals.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

unitedrentals.com

84 ms

www.unitedrentals.com

153 ms

jquery.smartbanner.css

79 ms

colorbox.css

69 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (94 requests) were addressed to the original Unitedrentals.com, 4% (4 requests) were made to Mongoosemetrics.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Unitedrentals.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (42%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Unitedrentals.com main page is 2.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 72.6 kB

  • Original 87.5 kB
  • After minification 78.2 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 9.3 kB, which is 11% 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 72.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 234.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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, United Rentals needs image optimization as it can save up to 234.3 kB or 15% 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 107.0 kB

  • Original 167.4 kB
  • After minification 104.3 kB
  • After compression 60.4 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 107.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 687.9 kB

  • Original 755.7 kB
  • After minification 635.0 kB
  • After compression 67.7 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. Unitedrentals.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 687.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (22%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of United 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

unitedrentals.com accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

unitedrentals.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

unitedrentals.com 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Unitedrentals.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 Unitedrentals.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 United 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: