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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

avalonbay.com

AvalonBay Communities

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

570 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Avalonbay.com page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

avalonbay.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,800 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

avalonbay.com

16 ms

avalonbay.com

23 ms

about-us

284 ms

203 ms

autopilot_sdk.js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Avalonbay.com, 28% (15 requests) were made to Avaloncommunities.com and 17% (9 requests) were made to Avalonbay-avalon-communities-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (766 ms) relates to the external source Avalonbay-avalon-communities-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

980.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Avalonbay.com main page is 1.1 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. 80% 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 710.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 91.8 kB
  • After minification 91.7 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 72.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 710.5 kB
  • After minification 710.5 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. Avalon Bay images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 252.5 kB
  • After minification 252.5 kB
  • After compression 250.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (59%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Avalon Bay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

avalonbay.com

avalonbay.com

16 ms

avalonbay.com

avalonbay.com

23 ms

about-us

about-us

284 ms

203 ms

autopilot_sdk.js

autopilot_sdk.js

69 ms

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47 ms

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css2

56 ms

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react.js

44 ms

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default.js

47 ms

antd.min.css

antd.min.css

94 ms

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31 ms

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33 ms

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46 ms

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169 ms

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201 ms

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200 ms

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93 ms

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291 ms

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549 ms

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673 ms

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638 ms

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706 ms

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108 ms

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108 ms

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107 ms

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ProximaNova-Bold.woff

107 ms

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otBannerSdk.js

106 ms

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119 ms

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150 ms

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119 ms

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119 ms

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169 ms

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205 ms

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105 ms

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118 ms

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124 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

121 ms

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311 ms

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fbevents.js

115 ms

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107 ms

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config.json

281 ms

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27 ms

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16 ms

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104 ms

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22 ms

Accessibility Review

avalonbay.com accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

avalonbay.com best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

avalonbay.com SEO score

92

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

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Avalonbay.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 Avalonbay.com main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

avalonbay.com

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