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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

studentcastle.co.uk

Student Accommodation UK | Student Castle

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

251 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

477 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentcastle.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 251 ms and then it took 2.3 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

studentcastle.co.uk performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.7 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentcastle.co.uk

251 ms

www.studentcastle.co.uk

612 ms

style.min.css

170 ms

head.min.js

243 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Studentcastle.co.uk, 15% (4 requests) were made to Imgry.pressly.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Embeds.pressly.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (613 ms) belongs to the original domain Studentcastle.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

763.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentcastle.co.uk main page is 1.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 666.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 31.5 kB

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 36.9 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.1 kB, which is 12% 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 31.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 666.5 kB
  • After minification 641.1 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. Student Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 89.4 kB

  • Original 175.6 kB
  • After minification 175.6 kB
  • After compression 86.2 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 89.4 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 111.3 kB

  • Original 136.8 kB
  • After minification 136.7 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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. Studentcastle.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 111.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (25%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Castle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

studentcastle.co.uk

studentcastle.co.uk

251 ms

www.studentcastle.co.uk

www.studentcastle.co.uk

612 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

170 ms

head.min.js

head.min.js

243 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

32 ms

all.min.js

all.min.js

362 ms

_mobile_home_page_hero_thelittlethings.jpg

_mobile_home_page_hero_thelittlethings.jpg

186 ms

wifi.jpg

wifi.jpg

268 ms

gym.jpg

gym.jpg

284 ms

24_hour_security.jpg

24_hour_security.jpg

498 ms

kitchen2.jpg

kitchen2.jpg

572 ms

dreamstimemedium_14066401-cambridge-location-promo-resize.jpg

dreamstimemedium_14066401-cambridge-location-promo-resize.jpg

434 ms

dreamstimemedium_22122646-york-location-promo-rezsize.jpg

dreamstimemedium_22122646-york-location-promo-rezsize.jpg

358 ms

durham-dreamstime-image.jpg

durham-dreamstime-image.jpg

430 ms

bath2-dreamstie-image.jpg

bath2-dreamstie-image.jpg

613 ms

glasgow-dreamstime-image.jpg

glasgow-dreamstime-image.jpg

529 ms

bike-image.jpg

bike-image.jpg

513 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

28 ms

grid-8f5811d0bd96da64ce35d34a8e188281.js

grid-8f5811d0bd96da64ce35d34a8e188281.js

117 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

grid

grid

171 ms

fetch

fetch

28 ms

fetch

fetch

103 ms

fetch

fetch

101 ms

fetch

fetch

102 ms

nr-892.min.js

nr-892.min.js

18 ms

Accessibility Review

studentcastle.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

studentcastle.co.uk 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

studentcastle.co.uk 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 Studentcastle.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 Studentcastle.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

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