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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

abouthomesforstudents.com

About Homes for Students - The UK’s Premier PBSA Management

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

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We are the UK’s number 1 independent Purpose-Built Student Accommodation management company, with student properties all over the United Kingdom.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Abouthomesforstudents.com page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

abouthomesforstudents.com performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value910 ms

31/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.021

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.5 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

abouthomesforstudents.com

46 ms

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3516 ms

magnific_popup.css

31 ms

animate.css

25 ms

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48 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (97 requests) were addressed to the original Abouthomesforstudents.com, 27% (36 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Abouthomesforstudents.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 540.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Abouthomesforstudents.com main page is 3.0 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. 80% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 514.0 kB

  • Original 574.6 kB
  • After minification 568.3 kB
  • After compression 60.5 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 514.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. About Homes For Students images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 249.9 kB
  • After minification 249.9 kB
  • After compression 247.3 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 78.4 kB
  • After minification 78.0 kB
  • After compression 76.6 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. Abouthomesforstudents.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (45%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

52

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of About Homes For 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

abouthomesforstudents.com accessibility score

88

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

abouthomesforstudents.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

abouthomesforstudents.com SEO score

97

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

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 Abouthomesforstudents.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 Abouthomesforstudents.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

abouthomesforstudents.com

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