Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

housingforstudents.ch

Accommodations for students in Switzerland

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

391 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

116 ms

housingforstudents.ch screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Housingfor Students content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about housingforstudents.ch

Accommodations for students in Switzerland. You will find on this website offers for rooms, studios and apartments (renting and sub-renting) as well as accommodations to share.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housingforstudents.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 391 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housingforstudents.ch performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.302

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housingforstudents.ch

391 ms

style.css

368 ms

adsbygoogle.js

5 ms

HFS_logo.gif

277 ms

HFS_header.jpg

512 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 24% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Housingforstudents.ch, 18% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 18% (6 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (512 ms) belongs to the original domain Housingforstudents.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

235.5 kB

After Optimization

185.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Housingforstudents.ch main page is 235.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 97.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 10.2 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 7.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 97.2 kB
  • After minification 96.2 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. Housingfor Students images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 92.8 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 82.9 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 9.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 31.8 kB

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Housingforstudents.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.8 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (24%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Housingfor Students. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

housingforstudents.ch accessibility score

79

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

housingforstudents.ch best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

housingforstudents.ch SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Housingforstudents.ch 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 Housingforstudents.ch main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Housingfor Students. 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: