Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

mycollegeroomie.com

My College Roomie | Campus Kaizen

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

mycollegeroomie.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mycollegeroomie.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mycollegeroomie.com performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mycollegeroomie.com

2104 ms

js

109 ms

style.css

31 ms

frontend-gtag.js

45 ms

jquery.min.js

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Mycollegeroomie.com, 38% (38 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Mycollegeroomie.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (26%)

Content Size

7.9 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Mycollegeroomie.com main page is 7.9 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. 85% 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. Images take 7.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 210.4 kB

  • Original 251.2 kB
  • After minification 251.1 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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 210.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 7.6 MB
  • After minification 5.7 MB

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, My College Roomie needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 244 B

  • Original 67.4 kB
  • After minification 67.4 kB
  • After compression 67.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 128 B

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 18.5 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. Mycollegeroomie.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (36%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My College Roomie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

mycollegeroomie.com accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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.

Best Practices

mycollegeroomie.com best practices score

62

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mycollegeroomie.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mycollegeroomie.com 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 Mycollegeroomie.com 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 data is detected on the main page of My College Roomie. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: