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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

dcuaccommodation.ie

Home | Dublin City University On Campus Housing - DCU Accommodation

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

258 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

827 ms

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About Website

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

The home of on campus student accommodation for students of Dublin City University. New and current students can apply for accommodation here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dcuaccommodation.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 258 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dcuaccommodation.ie performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dcuaccommodation.ie

258 ms

www.dcuaccommodation.ie

145 ms

qph3llq.css

90 ms

frontend.css

34 ms

css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Dcuaccommodation.ie, 8% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (274 ms) belongs to the original domain Dcuaccommodation.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 214.1 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dcuaccommodation.ie main page is 3.3 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. 80% 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 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 123.0 kB

  • Original 146.3 kB
  • After minification 140.9 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 123.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. DCU Accommodation images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 296.9 kB
  • After minification 296.9 kB
  • After compression 208.8 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 88.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 189.2 kB
  • After minification 189.2 kB
  • After compression 186.3 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. Dcuaccommodation.ie has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (79%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DCU Accommodation. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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dcuaccommodation.ie

258 ms

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145 ms

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Accessibility Review

dcuaccommodation.ie accessibility score

94

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

dcuaccommodation.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dcuaccommodation.ie SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Dcuaccommodation.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 Dcuaccommodation.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

dcuaccommodation.ie

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of DCU Accommodation. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: