Access places4students.com. Places4Students.com - Helping Students Find a Home Away from Home

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.536

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.9 s

8/100

10%

places4students.com

82 ms

www.places4students.com

251 ms

js

54 ms

modernizr

113 ms

p4s_mobile_style.css

138 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Places4students.com, 7% (4 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (415 ms) belongs to the original domain Places4students.com.

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Places4students.com main page is 2.5 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 53.4 kB

Original 65.2 kB
After minification 45.3 kB
After compression 11.8 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 19.9 kB, which is 31% 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 53.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 285.5 kB

Original 2.0 MB
After minification 1.7 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. Obviously, Places4 Students needs image optimization as it can save up to 285.5 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 205.3 kB

Original 310.8 kB
After minification 309.8 kB
After compression 105.5 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 205.3 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 139.3 kB

Original 168.8 kB
After minification 152.3 kB
After compression 29.5 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. Places4students.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 139.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Places4 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.