Access freshstudentliving.co.uk. Student Accommodation | Student Rooms

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

freshstudentliving.co.uk

1493 ms

font-awesome.css

15 ms

css

36 ms

styles.css

146 ms

style.css

461 ms

Our browser made a total of 178 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Freshstudentliving.co.uk, 12% (22 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 4% (7 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Freshstudentliving.co.uk.

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Freshstudentliving.co.uk main page is 2.8 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 163.8 kB

Original 202.8 kB
After minification 178.6 kB
After compression 39.0 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 24.2 kB, which is 12% 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 163.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 130.1 kB

Original 1.3 MB
After minification 1.1 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. Fresh Student Living images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 719.4 kB

Original 1.1 MB
After minification 1.1 MB
After compression 412.2 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 719.4 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 125.3 kB

Original 153.3 kB
After minification 149.0 kB
After compression 28.0 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. Freshstudentliving.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Now

166

After Optimization

104

The browser has sent 166 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fresh Student Living. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 51 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.