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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

Living - Search for student housing in Lancaster here

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

344 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

60 ms

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About Website

Visit housesearch.lusu.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date House Search Lusu content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about housesearch.lusu.co.uk

Living's accommodation search feature makes it easier to find student housing in Lancaster, courtesy of Lancaster University Students' Union.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Housesearch.lusu.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 344 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

housesearch.lusu.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

28/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

344 ms

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

312 ms

Accommodation

231 ms

core.language.js

144 ms

core.min.js

369 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Housesearch.lusu.co.uk, 14% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Resources.pad-group.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (663 ms) belongs to the original domain Housesearch.lusu.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 172.7 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

888.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Housesearch.lusu.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 451.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 65.7 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 77.8 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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 65.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 139 B

  • Original 451.9 kB
  • After minification 451.8 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. House Search Lusu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 369.2 kB
  • After minification 369.2 kB
  • After compression 309.4 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 59.8 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 47.0 kB

  • Original 157.6 kB
  • After minification 157.6 kB
  • After compression 110.6 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. Housesearch.lusu.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.0 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (66%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House Search Lusu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

344 ms

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

312 ms

Accommodation

Accommodation

231 ms

core.language.js

core.language.js

144 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

369 ms

core.mobile.min.js

core.mobile.min.js

369 ms

fab3b17b80.js

fab3b17b80.js

85 ms

variables.js

variables.js

375 ms

theme.blend.min.js

theme.blend.min.js

452 ms

nhw1wvv.js

nhw1wvv.js

267 ms

style.css

style.css

606 ms

template_custom.css

template_custom.css

375 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

444 ms

accordion-slider.min.css

accordion-slider.min.css

442 ms

propertySearch.min.js

propertySearch.min.js

446 ms

js

js

78 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

448 ms

jquery.accordionSlider.min.js

jquery.accordionSlider.min.js

517 ms

template_custom.js

template_custom.js

517 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

521 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

524 ms

js

js

526 ms

js

js

590 ms

js

js

590 ms

js

js

596 ms

js

js

599 ms

js

js

601 ms

js

js

663 ms

js

js

75 ms

drawASearch.js

drawASearch.js

602 ms

footerFix.js

footerFix.js

624 ms

Final.js

Final.js

624 ms

blank.gif

blank.gif

361 ms

studentpad.png

studentpad.png

364 ms

living.png

living.png

174 ms

welcome-image.png

welcome-image.png

176 ms

livingHome.png

livingHome.png

174 ms

mspartner-logo.png

mspartner-logo.png

175 ms

wrapper-main-image.png

wrapper-main-image.png

161 ms

logo-main.png

logo-main.png

139 ms

magnifyWhite.png

magnifyWhite.png

139 ms

content-divide.gif

content-divide.gif

122 ms

loading_spinner_large.gif

loading_spinner_large.gif

113 ms

d

d

31 ms

d

d

5 ms

d

d

7 ms

d

d

30 ms

d

d

7 ms

d

d

8 ms

p.gif

p.gif

34 ms

Accessibility Review

housesearch.lusu.co.uk accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

housesearch.lusu.co.uk 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

housesearch.lusu.co.uk SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Housesearch.lusu.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 Housesearch.lusu.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

housesearch.lusu.co.uk

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