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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

studentsource.co.uk

Student Accommodation, Student Houses, Student Flats, Student Apartments | Student Source

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

441 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

238 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentsource.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 441 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentsource.co.uk performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.125

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentsource.co.uk

441 ms

azm2yzz.js

80 ms

original.css

102 ms

main.css

208 ms

js

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Studentsource.co.uk, 10% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to E4388c6d24521565c4aa-1df15015a6c74825aba5abced4d0056a.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Studentsource.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 875.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentsource.co.uk main page is 5.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 52.1 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.4 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 43.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 331.3 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.0 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. Student Source images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 499.1 kB

  • Original 819.2 kB
  • After minification 819.1 kB
  • After compression 320.1 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 499.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 58.8 kB
  • After minification 58.4 kB
  • After compression 56.9 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. Studentsource.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (56%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Source. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

studentsource.co.uk

studentsource.co.uk

441 ms

azm2yzz.js

azm2yzz.js

80 ms

original.css

original.css

102 ms

main.css

main.css

208 ms

js

js

65 ms

css

css

49 ms

css

css

65 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

19 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

24 ms

jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js

jquery.ui.touch-punch.min.js

29 ms

autocompletedata.js

autocompletedata.js

531 ms

full.mod.js

full.mod.js

76 ms

typeahead_0-10-5.js

typeahead_0-10-5.js

386 ms

handlebars-v1.3.0.js

handlebars-v1.3.0.js

280 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

237 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

280 ms

min.js

min.js

99 ms

sushi2.js

sushi2.js

415 ms

onepage.js

onepage.js

419 ms

scroller.js

scroller.js

429 ms

geolocate.js

geolocate.js

450 ms

ckeditor.js

ckeditor.js

148 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

107 ms

locationpicker.js

locationpicker.js

450 ms

matchHeight.js

matchHeight.js

611 ms

front.js

front.js

623 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

619 ms

css

css

32 ms

ss_logo_new.svg

ss_logo_new.svg

625 ms

mag-g.png

mag-g.png

628 ms

main2.png

main2.png

629 ms

mag-dg.png

mag-dg.png

632 ms

600x400-12x3.jpg

600x400-12x3.jpg

652 ms

600x400-12x0.jpg

600x400-12x0.jpg

665 ms

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684 ms

600x400-12x1.jpg

600x400-12x1.jpg

704 ms

600x400-17mx.jpg

600x400-17mx.jpg

798 ms

600x400-17my.jpg

600x400-17my.jpg

862 ms

600x400-17n0.jpg

600x400-17n0.jpg

947 ms

600x400-17mz.jpg

600x400-17mz.jpg

994 ms

ov-finance-d.svg

ov-finance-d.svg

898 ms

ICON-SLEEPS.svg

ICON-SLEEPS.svg

927 ms

ov-loc-d.svg

ov-loc-d.svg

1005 ms

ov-wifi-d.svg

ov-wifi-d.svg

1074 ms

ICON-HOUSE-SPRITE.svg

ICON-HOUSE-SPRITE.svg

1099 ms

ICON-MAG-SPRITE.svg

ICON-MAG-SPRITE.svg

1133 ms

ICON-PIN-SPRITE.svg

ICON-PIN-SPRITE.svg

1154 ms

550x550-1f6w.jpg

550x550-1f6w.jpg

1302 ms

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1336 ms

550x550-1jqr.jpg

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1401 ms

550x550-24pr.jpg

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1394 ms

550x550-21sp.jpg

550x550-21sp.jpg

1442 ms

social.jpg

social.jpg

1355 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

1400 ms

like.php

like.php

194 ms

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iJWZBXyIfDnIV5PNhY1KTN7Z-Yh-B4iFV0Uw.ttf

32 ms

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62 ms

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63 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

1427 ms

DOWN-ARROW-WHITE.svg

DOWN-ARROW-WHITE.svg

1416 ms

nIvNRKOdND_.js

nIvNRKOdND_.js

57 ms

FEppCFCt76d.png

FEppCFCt76d.png

7 ms

favourites

favourites

1073 ms

nearby

nearby

1133 ms

ph-dropDown.png

ph-dropDown.png

1090 ms

d

d

182 ms

d

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275 ms

d

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240 ms

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210 ms

d

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282 ms

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267 ms

p.gif

p.gif

31 ms

Accessibility Review

studentsource.co.uk accessibility score

67

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

studentsource.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

studentsource.co.uk SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Studentsource.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 Studentsource.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

studentsource.co.uk

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