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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

m.spareroom.co.uk

SpareRoom for flatshare, house share, flat share & rooms for rent

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

647 ms

Page Rendered

447 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.spareroom.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.spareroom.co.uk performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

59/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,350 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

m.spareroom.co.uk

171 ms

otSDKStub.js

98 ms

polyfill.min.js

5 ms

gtm.js

210 ms

style_stack.8839a5af3d6fd311d219.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original M.spareroom.co.uk, 7% (3 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.polyfill.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (210 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

492.7 kB

After Optimization

437.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.spareroom.co.uk main page is 492.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 352.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 68.5 kB
  • After minification 64.4 kB
  • After compression 18.0 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 50.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 46.6 kB
  • After minification 42.0 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. M Spare Room images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 105 B

  • Original 352.7 kB
  • After minification 352.7 kB
  • After compression 352.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 24.9 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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. M.spareroom.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (38%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Spare Room. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

m.spareroom.co.uk

m.spareroom.co.uk

171 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

98 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

5 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

210 ms

style_stack.8839a5af3d6fd311d219.css

style_stack.8839a5af3d6fd311d219.css

16 ms

stack.29ac1a6b03b8c8397b9f.css

stack.29ac1a6b03b8c8397b9f.css

20 ms

home.aa563917628d0fcd83bc.css

home.aa563917628d0fcd83bc.css

29 ms

fontawesome.cf5aa8ec1ff1c5743c3b.css

fontawesome.cf5aa8ec1ff1c5743c3b.css

28 ms

fontawesome.3cf6c48b86ea16b3c722.js

fontawesome.3cf6c48b86ea16b3c722.js

28 ms

index.b8d0d9a4feb7052ed8ce.css

index.b8d0d9a4feb7052ed8ce.css

28 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

84 ms

vendor.ad35ea6c1ce2da489136.js

vendor.ad35ea6c1ce2da489136.js

56 ms

style_stack.99592bef600d1cfa23f9.js

style_stack.99592bef600d1cfa23f9.js

23 ms

stack.42e734ea26602ff8fec8.js

stack.42e734ea26602ff8fec8.js

83 ms

index.5b310934a9fe194af22f.js

index.5b310934a9fe194af22f.js

78 ms

home.137c6d5b94d0bed5e166.js

home.137c6d5b94d0bed5e166.js

77 ms

SpareRoom_header_logo.svg

SpareRoom_header_logo.svg

109 ms

en-GB.svg

en-GB.svg

30 ms

966w.jpeg

966w.jpeg

195 ms

stars_and_logo.svg

stars_and_logo.svg

193 ms

tube_ad_deskt.jpg

tube_ad_deskt.jpg

196 ms

tube_camp_main_text.svg

tube_camp_main_text.svg

110 ms

EveryThreeMins.svg

EveryThreeMins.svg

115 ms

Keys.svg

Keys.svg

113 ms

Welcome.svg

Welcome.svg

120 ms

AppStore.svg

AppStore.svg

118 ms

GooglePlay.svg

GooglePlay.svg

122 ms

theGuardian.svg

theGuardian.svg

124 ms

buzzfeed.svg

buzzfeed.svg

127 ms

BBC.svg

BBC.svg

129 ms

metro.svg

metro.svg

136 ms

channel4.svg

channel4.svg

133 ms

timeOut.svg

timeOut.svg

133 ms

refinery29.svg

refinery29.svg

138 ms

SpeedFlatmating_blue.svg

SpeedFlatmating_blue.svg

141 ms

crisis.png

crisis.png

142 ms

LiveRentFree.svg

LiveRentFree.svg

143 ms

d66f7c7e-e1a8-4994-93c0-8fdfe120f2e8.json

d66f7c7e-e1a8-4994-93c0-8fdfe120f2e8.json

123 ms

location

location

156 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

137 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

103 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

101 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

33 ms

Accessibility Review

m.spareroom.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

m.spareroom.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

m.spareroom.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise M.spareroom.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 M.spareroom.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

m.spareroom.co.uk

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