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Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

unite-students.com

Student Accommodation & Housing Across the UK | Unite Students

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

53 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Unite-students.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.4 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

unite-students.com performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,850 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.348

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.unitestudents.com

1166 ms

j.php

57 ms

otSDKStub.js

50 ms

optimize.js

55 ms

css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Unite-students.com, 14% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Unitestudents.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 96.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

799.3 kB

After Optimization

702.6 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Unite-students.com main page is 799.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 663.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 95.9 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 119.7 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 95.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 525 B

  • Original 663.7 kB
  • After minification 663.7 kB
  • After compression 663.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 295 B

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 13.6 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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. Unite-students.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (88%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Unite 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

unite-students.com accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

unite-students.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

unite-students.com SEO score

86

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Unite-students.com 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 Unite-students.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

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