Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

glidestudent.co.uk

Glide: Business Broadband & PBSA BTR Connectivity Solutions

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

321 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

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About Website

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Glide is a market-leading broadband & infrastructure business, delivering connectivity in student and built-to-rent accommodation and business sectors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glidestudent.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 321 ms and then it took 2.1 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

glidestudent.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glide.co.uk

321 ms

css2

34 ms

theme.css

378 ms

style-gl.min.css

384 ms

slick.min.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Glidestudent.co.uk, 12% (5 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (845 ms) relates to the external source Glide.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 704.2 kB (76%)

Content Size

929.7 kB

After Optimization

225.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Glidestudent.co.uk main page is 929.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 561.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 84.0 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 90.1 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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 84.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 556 B

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 3.8 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. Obviously, Glide Student needs image optimization as it can save up to 556 B or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 394.9 kB

  • Original 561.2 kB
  • After minification 561.2 kB
  • After compression 166.3 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 394.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 224.8 kB

  • Original 265.3 kB
  • After minification 263.1 kB
  • After compression 40.5 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. Glidestudent.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 224.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (77%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glide Student. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

glidestudent.co.uk accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

glidestudent.co.uk best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

glidestudent.co.uk SEO score

89

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 Glidestudent.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 Glidestudent.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 PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: