Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

rent.com.au

Rental Properties, Real Estate & Houses for Rent | Rent.com.au

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

570 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

684 ms

rent.com.au screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rent.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 570 ms and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rent.com.au performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,410 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rent.com.au

570 ms

www.rent.com.au

869 ms

bootstrap.min.css

38 ms

site12-041d772f4424c2c9139f1e8f01b62b1e.css

714 ms

icons12-996366294a2d38c9e069192f960bb2f4.css

482 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Rent.com.au, 6% (8 requests) were made to Image2.pubmatic.com and 5% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Rent.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (54%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Rent.com.au main page is 2.9 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. 75% 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 187.9 kB

  • Original 240.5 kB
  • After minification 221.9 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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 187.9 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 105.1 kB

  • Original 891.7 kB
  • After minification 786.6 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, Rent needs image optimization as it can save up to 105.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 803.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 431.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 803.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 443.7 kB

  • Original 499.6 kB
  • After minification 428.1 kB
  • After compression 55.9 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.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 443.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (53%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 120 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 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rent.com.au accessibility score

89

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

rent.com.au 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

rent.com.au SEO score

93

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rent.com.au 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 Rent.com.au 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 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: