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roofstock.com website review
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 28 October 202620 issues · 70 checks
This review found 20 issues worth fixing on roofstock.com, 6 of them high impact, across 70 checks. The most urgent: fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors. Your full playbook turns these into prioritised fixes alongside reviews, competitors and channels.
- Homepage
- Phone render
- Links and pages
- Google PageSpeed
Google PageSpeed Insights (opens in a new tab), mobile
Site score
82BClosest competitors among reviewed websites
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| Date | Real-visitor load time (LCP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 16, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 23, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| May 30, 2026 | 2.1 s |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 2.4 s |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2.6 s |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 2.5 s |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 2.3 s |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 2.7 s |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 2.9 s |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 3.0 s |
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| Date | Real-visitor tap response (INP) |
|---|---|
| May 9, 2026 | 88 ms |
| May 16, 2026 | 87 ms |
| May 23, 2026 | 89 ms |
| May 30, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Jun 6, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Jun 13, 2026 | 97 ms |
| Jun 20, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jun 27, 2026 | 93 ms |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 96 ms |
| Jul 11, 2026 | 94 ms |
| Jul 18, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Jul 25, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 15, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Aug 22, 2026 | 89 ms |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 90 ms |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 91 ms |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 95 ms |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 88 ms |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 84 ms |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 86 ms |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 85 ms |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 84 ms |
Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab): real Chrome visitors over rolling 28-day periods.
One score from every part of this review. How it works
How it loaded on a phone
0.4 s
0.8 s
1.1 s
1.5 s
1.9 s
2.3 s
2.6 s
3.0 s
Speed
Mobile performance score: 76
76/100Your mobile performance score is 76 (desktop: 96). Pages that score under 90 lose visitors before the first paint.
Render-blocking requests
850 ms2 files block the first paint until they finish downloading. Deferring or inlining them could save about 850 ms.
4 third-party services on the page
4 third-party services load with your homepage (Google Tag Manager, Segment and ctfassets.net and others), adding 354 KiB and 114 ms of main-thread time.
Reduce unused JavaScript
105 KiBAbout 105 KiB of JavaScript is downloaded but never used on this page.
3 long tasks on the main thread
3 long tasks block the main thread while loading, the longest for 88 ms. During a long task the page ignores taps.
Use efficient cache lifetimes
65 KiB2 files are served with short cache lifetimes, so returning visitors download them again (65 KiB).
Reduce unused CSS
14 KiBAbout 14 KiB of CSS is downloaded but never applied on this page.
Legacy JavaScript
11 KiBPolyfills for old browsers add 11 KiB JavaScript that modern phones do not need.
Chained critical requests
Critical files load one after another instead of in parallel (3 chains). Preconnecting to key origins and preloading the hero image shortens the chain.
Duplicated JavaScript
3 KiB3 KiB JavaScript is shipped twice across bundles.
2 checks passed
Main-thread work: 1.3 s
A phone's processor spends 1.3 s on main-thread work while loading, 500 ms of it running JavaScript. That is comfortably low.
Server response: 28 ms
28 msYour server sent the HTML in 28 ms, well inside Google's 600 ms guideline.
Core Web Vitals
Fails Core Web Vitals for real visitors
Real Chrome users on phones do not pass Google's Core Web Vitals on this page (28-day field data from the Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab)). Google uses this in ranking.
Largest Contentful Paint: 6.7 s
6.7 sYour largest element takes 6.7 s to render on a phone. Google's threshold for “good” is 2.5 s. The largest element is the image “House with graph overlays”.
Time to Interactive: 9.1 s
9.1 sThe page becomes fully interactive after 9.1 s. Good is under 3.8 s.
Real-user LCP: 2.9 s
2.9 sReal visitors wait 2.9 s for the largest content to appear (75th percentile). Good is under 2.5 s.
Largest content (LCP) got 40% slower for real visitors
+40%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' largest content (lcp) went from 2.1 s to 3.0 s at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
Real-user FCP: 2.0 s
2.0 sReal visitors see the first content after 2.0 s (75th percentile). Good is under 1.8 s.
Real-user TTFB: 947 ms
947 msReal visitors wait 947 ms for your server to start answering (75th percentile). Good is under 800 ms.
Tap response (INP) held steady for real visitors
-3%Over the last 25 four-week periods to 2026-10-24, real Chrome visitors' tap response (inp) went from 88 ms to 84 ms at the 75th percentile (Chrome UX Report (opens in a new tab) history).
6 checks passed
Real-user INP: 85 ms
85 msReal visitors wait 85 ms for the page to respond to a tap (75th percentile). Good is under 200 ms.
Real-user CLS: 0.00
0.00For real visitors the layout shifts by 0.00 (75th percentile). Good is under 0.1.
Speed Index: 2.9 s
2.9 sVisually, the page fills in at 2.9 s (Speed Index), inside the 3.4 s “good” threshold.
First Contentful Paint: 1.5 s
1.5 sThe first text or image appears after 1.5 s, inside the 1.8 s “good” threshold.
Total Blocking Time: 85 ms
85 msScripts block the page for only 85 ms while loading. Good is under 200 ms.
Cumulative Layout Shift: 0
0The layout barely moves while loading (CLS 0, good is under 0.1).
Images and page weight
About 0.3 g of CO₂ per visit
0.32 gBy the Sustainable Web Design model, a visit to your homepage emits about 0.32 g of CO₂e: 38.4 kg a year at 10,000 visits a month. It scales with page weight, so every byte cut lowers it.
4 checks passed
Page weight: 1.1 MB in 38 requests
1.1 MBYour homepage downloads 1.1 MB in 38 requests on a phone: fonts 523 KiB (7), scripts 458 KiB (16) and images 110 KiB (8). That is a lean page.
Images use modern formats
Every sizeable image is WebP, AVIF or SVG.
Images load when needed
Images below the first screen wait until the visitor scrolls to them.
Images are sized for phones
No image is downloaded at more than three times the size it is drawn on a phone.
Accessibility
4 tap targets too small
4 tap targets are too small or too close together to hit reliably with a finger.
2 text elements with low contrast
2 text elements don't have enough contrast against the background to read easily, especially outdoors on a phone.
2 checks passed
Every image has alt text
All 10 images in the HTML carry an alt attribute.
40 automated accessibility rules passed
axe-core 4.13.0, the open-source engine behind most accessibility testing tools, ran 42 WCAG 2.2 A/AA and best-practice rules on the phone render: 40 passed and 2 failed. Automated rules catch about a third of accessibility problems; the rest need manual testing.
SEO
No structured data
No structured data (JSON-LD), so Google can't show rich results such as your logo, ratings or FAQs.
2 H1 headlines
There are 2 <h1> headlines (“The place where portfolios perform” and “Everything you need under one roof”). One clear main headline is easier for people and search engines.
No canonical URL
No canonical URL, so duplicate versions of the homepage (with or without www, with tracking parameters) can split ranking signals.
Open Graph partly set
Open Graph is missing og:title and og:description, so shared links fall back to guesses.
35 internal links, 18 external
The homepage links to 35 pages on roofstock.com and 18 external pages.
4 checks passed
Meta description: 123 characters
Your meta description is 123 characters: “Roofstock helps 400,000+ investors buy, manage, and sell single-family rentals and build-to-rent portfolios in 50+ mark…”.
Title: 50 characters
Your title is a healthy 50 characters: “Roofstock | Invest & Manage SFR and BTR Portfolios”.
robots.txt in place
robots.txt is in place and points crawlers to your sitemap.
XML sitemap found
Your XML sitemap is reachable at https://www.roofstock.com/sitemap.xml.
AI search readiness
No Organization structured data
There is no Organization (or LocalBusiness) JSON-LD, so search engines and AI assistants have no machine-readable facts about who runs the site: its name, logo, profiles and contact details.
No llms.txt
There is no https://www.roofstock.com/llms.txt, a short Markdown guide to your key pages for AI tools (llmstxt.org). It is optional and few AI tools read it yet, so treat it as a cheap extra.
2 checks passed
AI answer engines may read the site
Your robots.txt lets the crawlers behind ChatGPT search, Claude and Perplexity read the site and cite it in answers.
Text is in the HTML
Your server sends the page's text in the HTML (584 words), so crawlers that don't run JavaScript still read it.
Other pages
15 internal pages checked
We fetched 15 pages linked from your homepage and read each the way a search engine does.
7 checks passed
Linked pages load
All 15 pages we checked loaded without an error.
Canonical URLs point to themselves
No page we checked hands its ranking to a different URL.
Every page has a meta description
All 15 pages that loaded have a meta description.
Titles are unique
Every page we checked has its own title.
Every page has an H1
Each page we checked has a main headline.
No linked page is hidden from search
None of the pages we checked carries a noindex tag.
Every page has a title
All 15 pages that loaded have a <title>.
Best practices
2 small tap targets
2 of 6 tappable elements near the top of the page are smaller than 24 px, hard to hit with a thumb.
2 checks passed
No console errors
No JavaScript errors were logged while the page loaded on a phone.
Mobile viewport set
The page declares a mobile viewport.
Content and conversion
No call to action on the first screen
On a phone, there is no call to action on the first screen: visitors have to scroll to find out what to do next.
Thin social proof
Social proof on the homepage: “400K Users”. Pairing it with named testimonials or customer logos makes it far more convincing.
No analytics detected
No analytics or tag manager detected in the HTML, so you can't measure whether any of these fixes work.
No form on the homepage
There is no form on the homepage, so every lead has to click through to another page first.
About 545 words of copy
The homepage carries about 545 words of visible text.
3 checks passed
1 call to action
The homepage has 1 call to action, for example “Learn more Learn more”.
Direct contact links
Visitors can reach you directly: 1 phone link and 1 email link.
Risk reducer mentioned
A guarantee or risk reducer (money-back, free trial, no credit card or similar) is mentioned on the page.
Privacy and tracking
1 tracker load before any consent
1Before a visitor clicks anything, the page loads Segment (measured from a US location before any click). No consent tool was detected. Visitors from the EU, UK and several US states must be asked first.
No consent tool detected
No known cookie consent tool loads with the page. Some sites build their own banner, and some only show one to visitors from the EU.
3 other companies contacted
Loading the homepage contacts 3 hosts run by other companies (fonts, scripts, analytics, ads), each of which sees the visitor's IP address.
Security, domain, email and software versions
The security, domain and email checks, software and plugin versions, and any app with a known security problem are visible only to people at roofstock.com, because details like these could help someone attack a site. Every review keeps them private, whatever they found.
Upkeep, stack and company
Stack
- CMS
- Drupal
- Framework
- Next.js
- Hosting
- Azure
Hiring
- Hiring
- 9 open roles
- Teams
- Central Operations (2), Legal (2), Property Services (2), Asset Management (1)
- Job board
- greenhouse
Company
- Employees
- 502
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Oakland
Upkeep, stack, hiring and company data from programmable.info
Go beyond the website
What your $25 Growth Playbook adds
This review found 20 issues on roofstock.com, including 9 speed issues, 3 SEO issues and 3 conversion gaps. That is the website alone. The full Growth Playbook pairs these findings with what your customers say in public reviews and communities and what your closest competitors do better, then turns everything into at least 20 prioritised ideas, each with the evidence behind it, a step-by-step playbook, a metric and an owner.
- 28 research agents read your site, reviews, competitors, communities and public filings
- Customer review mining (G2, Capterra, Trustpilot and more) and voice-of-pain analysis in your buyers’ own words
- Competitor intelligence with battlecards for your closest rivals
- Ideal customer profile, buyer segments and buying-stage funnel
- Ranked channels, outreach sequences and content angles
- Live Reddit threads where buyers ask for what you sell, with draft replies
- Earned media and PR openings
- At least 20 ideas with evidence, a step-by-step playbook, metric, owner, effort and impact, grouped into this week, this quarter, big bets and wildcards, plus a 30/60/90-day roadmap
- PDF, Markdown, CSV, Notion and Linear exports, and a shareable page your team can track progress on
- Refresh the playbook later to see what changed
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