Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% 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

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

caus.vt.edu

College of Architecture, Arts, and Design | College of Architecture, Arts, and Design | Virginia Tech

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

905 ms

Page Rendered

841 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Caus.vt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 87 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

caus.vt.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value86.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,940 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.265

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

caus.vt.edu

87 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

69 ms

vt_jquery_plugins.js

111 ms

jquery-ui-theme-1.css

103 ms

quicklinks.js

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Caus.vt.edu, 36% (18 requests) were made to Assets.cms.vt.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (410 ms) belongs to the original domain Caus.vt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 420.3 kB (19%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Caus.vt.edu main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 21.7 kB
  • After minification 20.7 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 16.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 43.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Caus Vt images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 296.1 kB

  • Original 435.4 kB
  • After minification 426.5 kB
  • After compression 139.3 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 296.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 64.9 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 64.9 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. Caus.vt.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (30%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Caus Vt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

caus.vt.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

caus.vt.edu 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

caus.vt.edu SEO score

77

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

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 Caus.vt.edu 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 Caus.vt.edu 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

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