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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

roomgo.co.uk

Find rooms to rent, flatshare or rooms for rent with Roomgo

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

717 ms

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About Website

Welcome to roomgo.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Roomgo best content right away, or after learning these important things about roomgo.co.uk

Roomgo (formerly EasyRoommate): UK’s largest flatshare service, with rooms for rent across the UK. It’s free and easy to find a room to rent or a flatmate!

Visit roomgo.co.uk

Key Findings

We analyzed Roomgo.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

roomgo.co.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

68/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value970 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

roomgo.co.uk

164 ms

www.roomgo.co.uk

624 ms

shared.min.css

79 ms

ErmCss.Homepage.min.css

77 ms

otSDKStub.js

94 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Roomgo.co.uk, 68% (13 requests) were made to Static.erm-assets.com and 16% (3 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (624 ms) belongs to the original domain Roomgo.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 144.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

619.3 kB

After Optimization

474.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Roomgo.co.uk main page is 619.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 338.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 142.3 kB

  • Original 171.4 kB
  • After minification 122.9 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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 48.6 kB, which is 28% 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 142.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 88.1 kB
  • After minification 87.0 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. Roomgo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 969 B

  • Original 338.8 kB
  • After minification 338.8 kB
  • After compression 337.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 312 B

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 20.9 kB
  • After compression 20.6 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. Roomgo.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (41%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Roomgo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

roomgo.co.uk

roomgo.co.uk

164 ms

www.roomgo.co.uk

www.roomgo.co.uk

624 ms

shared.min.css

shared.min.css

79 ms

ErmCss.Homepage.min.css

ErmCss.Homepage.min.css

77 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

94 ms

r_logo.png

r_logo.png

75 ms

hp-main-img.jpg

hp-main-img.jpg

147 ms

arrow-left.svg

arrow-left.svg

83 ms

arrow-right.svg

arrow-right.svg

85 ms

mapkit.js

mapkit.js

21 ms

libs-light.min.js

libs-light.min.js

19 ms

mailcheck.min.js

mailcheck.min.js

19 ms

homepage.min.js

homepage.min.js

19 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

192 ms

09538456-39f6-4e4e-8243-31a1fce26cfc.json

09538456-39f6-4e4e-8243-31a1fce26cfc.json

75 ms

flags-sprite.png

flags-sprite.png

7 ms

arrow-down.svg

arrow-down.svg

8 ms

listing-no-pic.svg

listing-no-pic.svg

9 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

33 ms

Accessibility Review

roomgo.co.uk accessibility score

89

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

roomgo.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

roomgo.co.uk SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Roomgo.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Roomgo.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

roomgo.co.uk

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