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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

lettingsbu.com

LettingsBU | Student Accommodation in Bournemouth | Student Lets in Bournemouth

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

297 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lettingsbu.com page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lettingsbu.com performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.522

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lettingsbu.com

211 ms

www.lettingsbu.com

1240 ms

base.css

173 ms

styles.css

264 ms

css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Lettingsbu.com, 5% (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 (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Lettingsbu.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 56.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lettingsbu.com main page is 2.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 55.3 kB
  • After minification 52.0 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 46.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. LettingsBU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 79.7 kB
  • After minification 79.7 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 57.2 kB
  • After minification 57.2 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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. Lettingsbu.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (39%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of LettingsBU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lettingsbu.com

lettingsbu.com

211 ms

www.lettingsbu.com

www.lettingsbu.com

1240 ms

base.css

base.css

173 ms

styles.css

styles.css

264 ms

css

css

42 ms

modernizr-custom.js

modernizr-custom.js

306 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

36 ms

js

js

81 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

392 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

388 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

389 ms

bootstrap-select.js

bootstrap-select.js

388 ms

app.js

app.js

389 ms

bookings.js

bookings.js

389 ms

account-login.js

account-login.js

410 ms

bg1.jpg

bg1.jpg

421 ms

bx_loader.gif

bx_loader.gif

113 ms

bg1.jpg

bg1.jpg

251 ms

bg2.jpg

bg2.jpg

424 ms

bg3.jpg

bg3.jpg

436 ms

bg4.jpg

bg4.jpg

365 ms

bg5.jpg

bg5.jpg

502 ms

bg6.jpg

bg6.jpg

480 ms

logo.png

logo.png

441 ms

cta-1.jpg

cta-1.jpg

499 ms

cta-2.jpg

cta-2.jpg

499 ms

cta-3.jpg

cta-3.jpg

528 ms

cta-4.jpg

cta-4.jpg

528 ms

cta-5.jpg

cta-5.jpg

557 ms

cta-6.jpg

cta-6.jpg

578 ms

portals.png

portals.png

575 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

581 ms

jizaRExUiTo99u79D0KEwA.ttf

jizaRExUiTo99u79D0KEwA.ttf

56 ms

jizfRExUiTo99u79B_mh0O6tKA.ttf

jizfRExUiTo99u79B_mh0O6tKA.ttf

66 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

527 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

532 ms

printsite.css

printsite.css

78 ms

Accessibility Review

lettingsbu.com accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

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.

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

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

lettingsbu.com best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

lettingsbu.com SEO score

80

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Lettingsbu.com 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 Lettingsbu.com 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

lettingsbu.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of LettingsBU. 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: