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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

studentspareroom.co.uk

Student accommodation, student rooms in student flat share from StudentSpareRoom.co.uk

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

217 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

studentspareroom.co.uk screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentspareroom.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 217 ms and then it took 1.3 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

studentspareroom.co.uk performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

student.spareroom.co.uk

217 ms

0eadde0b120774eb2dbe7ba7bfbbabc3.css

92 ms

8b697c3faa9a4ade196396a044cd1b9d.js

273 ms

d83a421ba2613fbbc5afc8905d77adde.js

183 ms

12316d263e464152f7bba14cb90fcf92.js

184 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Studentspareroom.co.uk, 26% (10 requests) were made to Photos2.spareroom.co.uk and 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (392 ms) relates to the external source Student.spareroom.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 157.7 kB (47%)

Content Size

339.1 kB

After Optimization

181.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentspareroom.co.uk main page is 339.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 113.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 13.1 kB
  • After minification 10.6 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.5 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 9.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 110.5 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. Student Spare Room images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 55.3 kB

  • Original 104.0 kB
  • After minification 103.7 kB
  • After compression 48.7 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 55.3 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 89.7 kB

  • Original 108.5 kB
  • After minification 85.2 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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. Studentspareroom.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (46%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Spare Room. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

student.spareroom.co.uk

student.spareroom.co.uk

217 ms

0eadde0b120774eb2dbe7ba7bfbbabc3.css

0eadde0b120774eb2dbe7ba7bfbbabc3.css

92 ms

8b697c3faa9a4ade196396a044cd1b9d.js

8b697c3faa9a4ade196396a044cd1b9d.js

273 ms

d83a421ba2613fbbc5afc8905d77adde.js

d83a421ba2613fbbc5afc8905d77adde.js

183 ms

12316d263e464152f7bba14cb90fcf92.js

12316d263e464152f7bba14cb90fcf92.js

184 ms

screen.css

screen.css

202 ms

jquery.autocomplete.css

jquery.autocomplete.css

93 ms

mythreads.css

mythreads.css

98 ms

10877653.jpg

10877653.jpg

172 ms

10105516.jpg

10105516.jpg

171 ms

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11647507.jpg

172 ms

2568820.jpg

2568820.jpg

172 ms

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10844560.jpg

172 ms

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1797958.jpg

178 ms

1902154.jpg

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249 ms

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10324558.jpg

250 ms

2449727.jpg

2449727.jpg

251 ms

10368505.jpg

10368505.jpg

252 ms

body_bg.png

body_bg.png

92 ms

top_left.png

top_left.png

99 ms

top_right.png

top_right.png

93 ms

right.png

right.png

93 ms

studentspareroom_logo.gif

studentspareroom_logo.gif

176 ms

topnav_ssr_bg.png

topnav_ssr_bg.png

181 ms

menu_ssr_sprite.png

menu_ssr_sprite.png

270 ms

find_panel_bottom.gif

find_panel_bottom.gif

181 ms

find.gif

find.gif

183 ms

students.png

students.png

392 ms

need-any-help.gif

need-any-help.gif

262 ms

gemma.gif

gemma.gif

270 ms

footer-bar.gif

footer-bar.gif

271 ms

ga.js

ga.js

5 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

bottom.png

bottom.png

228 ms

bottom_left.png

bottom_left.png

305 ms

bottom_right.png

bottom_right.png

313 ms

c3ef49d7f701d25c271764caa52584e0.css

c3ef49d7f701d25c271764caa52584e0.css

93 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

2 ms

Accessibility Review

studentspareroom.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

studentspareroom.co.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

studentspareroom.co.uk SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Studentspareroom.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Studentspareroom.co.uk 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

studentspareroom.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Student Spare Room. 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: