Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

rentcanada.ca

Apartments, Townhomes, and Condos for Rent in Canada | RentCanada

Page Load Speed

185 ms in total

First Response

52 ms

Resources Loaded

133 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

rentcanada.ca screenshot

About Website

Welcome to rentcanada.ca homepage info - get ready to check Rent Canada best content right away, or after learning these important things about rentcanada.ca

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rentcanada.ca page load time and found that the first response time was 52 ms and then it took 133 ms 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.

Performance Metrics

rentcanada.ca performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

16/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,830 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rentcanada.ca

52 ms

rentcanada.com

57 ms

v1

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Rentcanada.ca, 67% (2 requests) were made to Rentcanada.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (57 ms) relates to the external source Rentcanada.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.4 kB (56%)

Content Size

237.0 kB

After Optimization

104.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Rentcanada.ca main page is 237.0 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 211.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 9.0 kB or 55% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 6.8 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 Canada needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 121.0 kB

  • Original 211.1 kB
  • After minification 210.1 kB
  • After compression 90.1 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 121.0 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 584 B

  • Original 844 B
  • After minification 660 B
  • After compression 260 B

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. Rentcanada.ca needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 584 B or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rent Canada. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

rentcanada.ca accessibility score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

rentcanada.ca 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

rentcanada.ca 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

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 Rentcanada.ca 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 Rentcanada.ca 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 Canada. 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: