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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

padsforstudents.co.uk

Student Accommodation UK - Students Houses, Flats & Private Halls - Pads for Students

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

155 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

647 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Padsforstudents.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 155 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

padsforstudents.co.uk performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.5 s

55/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.285

42/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.8 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

padsforstudents.co.uk

155 ms

www.padsforstudents.co.uk

636 ms

pfs.css

163 ms

responsive.css

226 ms

popup.css

228 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Padsforstudents.co.uk, 13% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (792 ms) belongs to the original domain Padsforstudents.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

982.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Padsforstudents.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 762.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 78.8 kB
  • After minification 71.2 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 61.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 53.3 kB

  • Original 762.5 kB
  • After minification 709.3 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. Pads For Students images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 235.8 kB
  • After minification 235.2 kB
  • After compression 228.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 29.1 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. Padsforstudents.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (49%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pads 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 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

padsforstudents.co.uk accessibility score

68

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

padsforstudents.co.uk best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

padsforstudents.co.uk SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Padsforstudents.co.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 Padsforstudents.co.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

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