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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

housinglink.org

HousingLink - Find Your New Affordable Rental Apartment In MN

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

127 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

149 ms

housinglink.org screenshot

About Website

Visit housinglink.org now to see the best up-to-date Housing Link content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about housinglink.org

Affordable housing resources and information for renters, landlords, researchers and policy makers. Search for affordable apartments in Minnesota.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housinglink.org page load time and found that the first response time was 127 ms and then it took 2.1 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

housinglink.org performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value32.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value32.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.251

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housinglink.org

127 ms

housinglink.org

290 ms

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

WebResource.axd

176 ms

ScriptResource.axd

208 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Housinglink.org, 3% (1 request) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Housinglink.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 957.1 kB (67%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

478.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Housinglink.org main page is 1.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 896.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 168.2 kB

  • Original 210.1 kB
  • After minification 205.0 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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. 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 168.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 96.6 kB

  • Original 138.2 kB
  • After minification 41.6 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. Obviously, Housing Link needs image optimization as it can save up to 96.6 kB or 70% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 190.4 kB
  • After minification 190.4 kB
  • After compression 174.2 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.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 676.1 kB

  • Original 896.9 kB
  • After minification 891.0 kB
  • After compression 220.8 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. Housinglink.org needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 676.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (74%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housing Link. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

housinglink.org

housinglink.org

127 ms

housinglink.org

housinglink.org

290 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

176 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

208 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

136 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

137 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

136 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1064 ms

expressive.annotations.validate.js

expressive.annotations.validate.js

221 ms

splide.min.js

splide.min.js

221 ms

main.min.css

main.min.css

269 ms

siteNew.min.css

siteNew.min.css

222 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

261 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

232 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

264 ms

js

js

77 ms

SearchNew.es5.min.js

SearchNew.es5.min.js

153 ms

element.js

element.js

53 ms

Search-box.min.js

Search-box.min.js

183 ms

js

js

64 ms

custom_helpjuice_swifty_no_jquery.js

custom_helpjuice_swifty_no_jquery.js

183 ms

customvalidation.js

customvalidation.js

210 ms

HLlogo2.gif

HLlogo2.gif

45 ms

search_icon.png

search_icon.png

48 ms

background_texture.png

background_texture.png

38 ms

neighborhood_artwork.png

neighborhood_artwork.png

35 ms

site.png

site.png

68 ms

update.min.js

update.min.js

113 ms

Accessibility Review

housinglink.org accessibility score

69

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

housinglink.org 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

housinglink.org SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Housinglink.org 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 Housinglink.org 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

housinglink.org

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