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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    31% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 90% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk

Student accommodation in Egham - houses homes flats housing

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

531 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Houses Earch Rhul content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about housesearch.rhul.ac.uk

The official Royal Holloway, University of London accommodation search engine for students. Search for properties and flats in the local area

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housesearch.rhul.ac.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 531 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk

531 ms

Accommodation

689 ms

core.min.js

566 ms

core.mobile.min.js

502 ms

fab3b17b80.js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Housesearch.rhul.ac.uk, 45% (50 requests) were made to Rhulstudentpad.co.uk and 39% (43 requests) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Resources.pad-group.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Housesearch.rhul.ac.uk main page is 2.3 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. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 150.0 kB

  • Original 181.1 kB
  • After minification 176.6 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 150.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 39.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Houses Earch Rhul images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 71.1 kB

  • Original 281.6 kB
  • After minification 281.0 kB
  • After compression 210.5 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 71.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 42.6 kB

  • Original 141.6 kB
  • After minification 141.6 kB
  • After compression 99.0 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. Housesearch.rhul.ac.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.6 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (43%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

60

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Houses Earch Rhul. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk

531 ms

Accommodation

Accommodation

689 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

566 ms

core.mobile.min.js

core.mobile.min.js

502 ms

fab3b17b80.js

fab3b17b80.js

90 ms

variables.js

variables.js

557 ms

theme.blend.min.js

theme.blend.min.js

654 ms

style.css

style.css

823 ms

template_custom.css

template_custom.css

646 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

644 ms

accordion-slider.min.css

accordion-slider.min.css

652 ms

propertySearch.js

propertySearch.js

673 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

107 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

673 ms

jquery.accordionSlider.min.js

jquery.accordionSlider.min.js

673 ms

template_custom.js

template_custom.js

703 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

714 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

721 ms

js

js

718 ms

js

js

724 ms

js

js

766 ms

js

js

780 ms

js

js

782 ms

js

js

791 ms

js

js

788 ms

element.js

element.js

133 ms

js

js

318 ms

drawASearch.js

drawASearch.js

923 ms

Final.js

Final.js

930 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

1976 ms

491

491

122 ms

welcome-image.png

welcome-image.png

158 ms

mspartner-logo.png

mspartner-logo.png

96 ms

studentpad.png

studentpad.png

2042 ms

collect

collect

44 ms

collect

collect

41 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

ProximaNova-Regular.woff

ProximaNova-Regular.woff

289 ms

ProximaNova-Semibold.woff

ProximaNova-Semibold.woff

101 ms

wrapper-main-image.png

wrapper-main-image.png

236 ms

logo-main.svg

logo-main.svg

236 ms

magnifyWhite.png

magnifyWhite.png

280 ms

gen_204

gen_204

1644 ms

content-divide.gif

content-divide.gif

1630 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

1625 ms

feedback.png

feedback.png

1627 ms

loading_spinner_large.gif

loading_spinner_large.gif

1534 ms

common.js

common.js

1466 ms

util.js

util.js

1469 ms

infowindow.js

infowindow.js

1468 ms

searchPropertiesCount

searchPropertiesCount

637 ms

searchPropertiesCount

searchPropertiesCount

912 ms

searchPropertiesCount

searchPropertiesCount

806 ms

searchPropertiesCount

searchPropertiesCount

511 ms

map.js

map.js

132 ms

marker.js

marker.js

85 ms

img1.jpg

img1.jpg

942 ms

studentpad_all_white.svg

studentpad_all_white.svg

206 ms

Fontpad.woff

Fontpad.woff

718 ms

Cyber-Essentials-Logo.png

Cyber-Essentials-Logo.png

769 ms

openhand_8_8.cur

openhand_8_8.cur

185 ms

onion.js

onion.js

127 ms

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

ViewportInfoService.GetViewportInfo

192 ms

geometry.js

geometry.js

72 ms

poly.js

poly.js

85 ms

searchPropertiesCount

searchPropertiesCount

608 ms

red-cross.png

red-cross.png

423 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

20 ms

undo_poly.png

undo_poly.png

96 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

116 ms

vt

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109 ms

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123 ms

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119 ms

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124 ms

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211 ms

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248 ms

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265 ms

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253 ms

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252 ms

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256 ms

vt

vt

280 ms

QuotaService.RecordEvent

QuotaService.RecordEvent

101 ms

main_9678111.gif

main_9678111.gif

89 ms

StudentRegister.jpg

StudentRegister.jpg

98 ms

landlords.jpg

landlords.jpg

82 ms

AnotherTown.jpg

AnotherTown.jpg

150 ms

privatehalls.jpg

privatehalls.jpg

154 ms

Accessibility Review

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk accessibility score

96

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.

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

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk SEO score

88

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

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 Housesearch.rhul.ac.uk 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 Housesearch.rhul.ac.uk 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

housesearch.rhul.ac.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Houses Earch Rhul. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: