Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

apartmentguide.com

ApartmentGuide - Find Apartments & Houses for Rent

Page Load Speed

63.1 sec in total

First Response

280 ms

Resources Loaded

53 sec

Page Rendered

9.8 sec

apartmentguide.com screenshot

About Website

Visit apartmentguide.com now to see the best up-to-date Apartment Guide content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about apartmentguide.com

Use the finest apartment finder tool to search thousands of listings across the country. See ratings/reviews, HD photos/videos, compare prices, and view floor plans.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apartmentguide.com page load time and found that the first response time was 280 ms and then it took 62.8 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. Unfortunately, there were 4 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

apartmentguide.com performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.7 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.116

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apartmentguide.com

280 ms

www.apartmentguide.com

864 ms

gateway.min.js

577 ms

identity.min.js

2150 ms

main-bundle-6c5a8faeafb0e5e39b48.css

2266 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Apartmentguide.com, 16% (13 requests) were made to Assets.apartmentguide.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Logx.optimizely.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 MB (64%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Apartmentguide.com main page is 6.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 132.7 kB

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 194.0 kB
  • After compression 62.2 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. 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 132.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 569.6 kB
  • After minification 565.0 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. Apartment Guide images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 3.3 MB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.8 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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 3.3 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 495.8 kB

  • Original 620.1 kB
  • After minification 617.7 kB
  • After compression 124.3 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. Apartmentguide.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 495.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (65%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apartment Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apartmentguide.com accessibility score

83

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

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

apartmentguide.com best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

apartmentguide.com SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apartmentguide.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 Apartmentguide.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 Apartment Guide. 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: