Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

collegecribs.ie

Find student accommodation in Dublin and across Ireland | CollegeCribs.ie

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

287 ms

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About Website

Welcome to collegecribs.ie homepage info - get ready to check College Cribs best content for Ireland right away, or after learning these important things about collegecribs.ie

Find student accommodation in Dublin and across Ireland on CollegeCribs.ie. Search hundreds of student digs, house shares, student lets and rentals close to your university or college.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Collegecribs.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 289 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

collegecribs.ie performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

collegecribs.ie

289 ms

www.collegecribs.ie

931 ms

css

37 ms

28 ms

362dd4fc710be360fe1d.css

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Collegecribs.ie, 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (931 ms) belongs to the original domain Collegecribs.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (58%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

972.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Collegecribs.ie main page is 2.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 92.4 kB

  • Original 108.7 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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 92.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 383.1 kB
  • After minification 375.0 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. College Cribs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 569.2 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 1.2 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 56.7 kB

  • Original 68.3 kB
  • After minification 56.0 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. Collegecribs.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (63%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of College Cribs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

collegecribs.ie accessibility score

77

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

collegecribs.ie best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

collegecribs.ie SEO score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Collegecribs.ie 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 Collegecribs.ie 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 College Cribs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: