Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

apartmenttherapy.com

Apartment Therapy | Saving the world, one room at a time

Page Load Speed

74.3 sec in total

First Response

515 ms

Resources Loaded

46.7 sec

Page Rendered

27.1 sec

apartmenttherapy.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apartmenttherapy.com page load time and found that the first response time was 515 ms and then it took 73.8 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 13 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

apartmenttherapy.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.apartmenttherapy.com

515 ms

webfonts-19c30c9e733866f30abd.js

402 ms

at-5e68a414d7f55370ffb1.css

369 ms

at-5e68a414d7f55370ffb1.js

2820 ms

pb.js

2874 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Apartmenttherapy.com, 40% (29 requests) were made to Atmedia.imgix.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (29.6 sec) relates to the external source Atmedia.imgix.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (44%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Apartmenttherapy.com main page is 5.5 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 260.7 kB

  • Original 320.1 kB
  • After minification 316.7 kB
  • After compression 59.5 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 260.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Apartment Therapy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 739.6 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 1.1 MB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 968.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 282.1 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. Apartmenttherapy.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 968.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (40%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

33

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apartment Therapy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apartmenttherapy.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

apartmenttherapy.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

apartmenttherapy.com SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apartmenttherapy.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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Apartmenttherapy.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 data is detected on the main page of Apartment Therapy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: