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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

idealflatmate.co.uk

Find spare rooms to rent and your next housemate | ideal flatmate

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

166 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

494 ms

idealflatmate.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Visit idealflatmate.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Ideal Flatmate content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about idealflatmate.co.uk

Match up with your perfect flatshare or flatmate! Find great spare rooms to rent and your perfect next housemate with London's FIRST flatmate matching site.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Idealflatmate.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 166 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

idealflatmate.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

idealflatmate.co.uk

166 ms

www.idealflatmate.co.uk

851 ms

css

44 ms

app-compressed.css

322 ms

293f8ab273234d84baa97e1382bade06.js.ubembed.com

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 39% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Idealflatmate.co.uk, 20% (18 requests) were made to D2yht872mhrlra.cloudfront.net and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source D2yht872mhrlra.cloudfront.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 219.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Idealflatmate.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 166.7 kB

  • Original 197.1 kB
  • After minification 164.2 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 32.8 kB, which is 17% 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 166.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Ideal Flatmate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 215 B

  • Original 112.2 kB
  • After minification 112.2 kB
  • After compression 111.9 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 137.8 kB
  • After minification 137.8 kB
  • After compression 134.1 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. Idealflatmate.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (23%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

64

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ideal Flatmate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

idealflatmate.co.uk

idealflatmate.co.uk

166 ms

www.idealflatmate.co.uk

www.idealflatmate.co.uk

851 ms

css

css

44 ms

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app-compressed.css

322 ms

293f8ab273234d84baa97e1382bade06.js.ubembed.com

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43 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

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65 ms

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71 ms

getSeal

getSeal

63 ms

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app-compressed.js

912 ms

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894 ms

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analytics.js

26 ms

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gtm.js

219 ms

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303 ms

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495 ms

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188 ms

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556 ms

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259 ms

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1215 ms

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1211 ms

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1215 ms

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530 ms

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1214 ms

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img_girl_matching--small.png

1214 ms

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1214 ms

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1314 ms

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1505 ms

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1572 ms

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1578 ms

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1571 ms

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1584 ms

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1582 ms

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1570 ms

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1653 ms

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1653 ms

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1654 ms

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537 ms

bundle.js

bundle.js

206 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

165 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

159 ms

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97 ms

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144 ms

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28 ms

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64 ms

insight.min.js

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234 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

188 ms

collect

collect

76 ms

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modules.cbd9768ba80ba0be5b17.js

90 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

124 ms

integrator.js

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118 ms

ads

ads

57 ms

148065145684544

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337 ms

collect

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78 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

962 ms

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549 ms

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44 ms

Accessibility Review

idealflatmate.co.uk accessibility score

80

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

idealflatmate.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

idealflatmate.co.uk SEO score

99

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 Idealflatmate.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 Idealflatmate.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

idealflatmate.co.uk

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