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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

forums.student.com

Student Accommodation Made Easy | Student.com

Page Load Speed

44.8 sec in total

First Response

471 ms

Resources Loaded

25.5 sec

Page Rendered

18.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.student.com page load time and found that the first response time was 471 ms and then it took 44.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.student.com performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,350 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.484

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.student.com

471 ms

stylesWorld.ffc746f132473a435b28.css

1067 ms

tp.widget.sync.bootstrap.min.js

935 ms

raven.min.js

936 ms

scriptsWorld.ff1a9b9e56a2f1f769d9.js

3434 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Forums.student.com, 18% (10 requests) were made to Student.com and 16% (9 requests) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.9 sec) relates to the external source Static.student.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 308.5 kB (40%)

Content Size

779.5 kB

After Optimization

471.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forums.student.com main page is 779.5 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. 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 324.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 121.4 kB

  • Original 152.6 kB
  • After minification 145.6 kB
  • After compression 31.2 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 121.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 324.1 kB
  • After minification 321.3 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. Forums Student images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 153 B

  • Original 62.0 kB
  • After minification 62.0 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 184.1 kB

  • Original 240.8 kB
  • After minification 234.8 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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. Forums.student.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 184.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (19%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Student. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.student.com

www.student.com

471 ms

stylesWorld.ffc746f132473a435b28.css

stylesWorld.ffc746f132473a435b28.css

1067 ms

tp.widget.sync.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.sync.bootstrap.min.js

935 ms

raven.min.js

raven.min.js

936 ms

scriptsWorld.ff1a9b9e56a2f1f769d9.js

scriptsWorld.ff1a9b9e56a2f1f769d9.js

3434 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

2978 ms

home-vrc00vpig6iuow29.svg

home-vrc00vpig6iuow29.svg

2781 ms

shutterstock_173871968-325x165.jpg

shutterstock_173871968-325x165.jpg

16898 ms

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ae5801dd2f7fc07d49ba9b5b2916d123

13206 ms

shutterstock_550359220-325x165.jpg

shutterstock_550359220-325x165.jpg

13593 ms

International-Student-Guide-to-Clearing-Header-1-e1471450848219-325x165.jpg

International-Student-Guide-to-Clearing-Header-1-e1471450848219-325x165.jpg

14451 ms

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clearing-guide_results-325x165.jpg

13593 ms

shutterstock1-d.jpg

shutterstock1-d.jpg

1705 ms

hero-image-dark.png

hero-image-dark.png

1690 ms

qrcode.jpg

qrcode.jpg

7214 ms

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common-vrc00vpig6iuow29.svg

9111 ms

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9888 ms

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efba18ed-80cc-49c4-997a-fbb140739d19.woff

8742 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

9509 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

9059 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

14752 ms

home-vrc00vpig6iuow29.svg

home-vrc00vpig6iuow29.svg

6097 ms

common-vrc00vpig6iuow29.svg

common-vrc00vpig6iuow29.svg

8962 ms

hero-city-london-zip-home@1x.jpg

hero-city-london-zip-home@1x.jpg

5976 ms

hero-city-liverpool-alt-zip-home@1x.jpg

hero-city-liverpool-alt-zip-home@1x.jpg

6365 ms

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hero-city-philadelphia-alt-zip-home@1x.jpg

6363 ms

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hero-city-los-angeles-alt-zip-home@1x.jpg

7367 ms

hero-city-sydney-alt-zip-home@1x.jpg

hero-city-sydney-alt-zip-home@1x.jpg

9571 ms

get-client-info

get-client-info

6969 ms

recently-viewed-properties

recently-viewed-properties

8171 ms

static-hash

static-hash

8042 ms

avatar.png

avatar.png

8017 ms

avatar.png

avatar.png

8705 ms

global.en-us.json

global.en-us.json

2386 ms

thousand_separator.en-us.json

thousand_separator.en-us.json

2917 ms

forms.en-us.json

forms.en-us.json

4878 ms

collect

collect

1583 ms

collect

collect

5386 ms

index.html

index.html

1449 ms

index.html

index.html

3969 ms

main.js

main.js

3347 ms

sprite_star.png

sprite_star.png

3742 ms

date_picker.en-us.json

date_picker.en-us.json

2416 ms

popular-cities

popular-cities

3866 ms

popular-search

popular-search

3654 ms

main.js

main.js

2939 ms

sprite_star.png

sprite_star.png

1284 ms

modal.aa99f1eb926a8f1d7f60.css

modal.aa99f1eb926a8f1d7f60.css

2023 ms

modal.aa99f1eb926a8f1d7f60.js

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3006 ms

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2975 ms

a

a

2830 ms

header-search-popular-city-liverpool-zip@1x.jpg

header-search-popular-city-liverpool-zip@1x.jpg

1219 ms

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header-search-popular-city-london-zip@1x.jpg

1091 ms

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header-search-popular-city-philadelphia-zip@1x.jpg

1092 ms

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header-search-popular-city-los-angeles-zip@1x.jpg

1149 ms

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header-search-popular-city-sydney-zip@1x.jpg

1148 ms

header-search-popular-city-melbourne-zip@1x.jpg

header-search-popular-city-melbourne-zip@1x.jpg

1138 ms

Accessibility Review

forums.student.com accessibility score

78

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

forums.student.com best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

forums.student.com SEO score

91

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 Forums.student.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 Forums.student.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

forums.student.com

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