Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

vfmac.edu

Valley Forge Military Academy and College - VFMAC Home - Valley Forge Military Academy and College

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

4.1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

251 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vfmac.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 4.1 sec and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vfmac.edu performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,110 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.vfmac.edu

4067 ms

bootstrap.min.css

98 ms

style.css

81 ms

ubermenu.css

77 ms

blog-styles.css

76 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Vfmac.edu, 17% (21 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 9% (12 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Vfmac.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 517.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Vfmac.edu main page is 2.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 99.1 kB

  • Original 124.0 kB
  • After minification 119.1 kB
  • After compression 24.8 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 99.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 36.8 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. VFMAC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 189.6 kB

  • Original 288.4 kB
  • After minification 277.9 kB
  • After compression 98.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 189.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 191.8 kB

  • Original 231.1 kB
  • After minification 203.5 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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. Vfmac.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 191.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (46%)

Requests Now

125

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 125 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VFMAC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vfmac.edu accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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

vfmac.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vfmac.edu SEO score

86

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vfmac.edu 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 Vfmac.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 data is detected on the main page of VFMAC. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: