Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

rent.co.uk

Rent Dublin, Apartments and Houses for Rent in Ireland - Rent.ie

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

172 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rent.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 172 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rent.co.uk performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

86/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.388

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rent.co.uk

172 ms

www.rent.co.uk

239 ms

main.css

86 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

235 ms

rentcouk.js

164 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Rent.co.uk, 10% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (396 ms) belongs to the original domain Rent.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.7 kB (46%)

Content Size

330.0 kB

After Optimization

179.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Rent.co.uk main page is 330.0 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 175.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 19.3 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.9 kB, which is 17% 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 17.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 92.8 kB
  • After minification 91.6 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. Rent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 99.2 kB

  • Original 175.4 kB
  • After minification 156.5 kB
  • After compression 76.3 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 99.2 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 32.4 kB

  • Original 38.5 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Rent.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (72%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

13

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rent.co.uk accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

rent.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rent.co.uk SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rent.co.uk 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 Rent.co.uk 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

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