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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

studyabroad.gwu.edu

Office for Study Abroad | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

880 ms in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

526 ms

Page Rendered

322 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studyabroad.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 848 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studyabroad.gwu.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.5 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studyabroad.gwu.edu

32 ms

studyabroad.gwu.edu

72 ms

css_NhzqdZy7xAB2WaJ9x3jVJhxV8sHy3agTvhwiCVzPjcQ.css

23 ms

css_KYlritVVBLjrnIPG9aLl_MJ7Em3xMjIpUdlj8lEA9gM.css

55 ms

css_Zvi6GSBwFB19Y_f2axG4Pk_qHsv_g7WzIty9G6MO-aA.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Studyabroad.gwu.edu, 12% (5 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 7% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (356 ms) relates to the external source Plugins.flockler.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 181.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studyabroad.gwu.edu main page is 2.8 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 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 63.4 kB
  • After minification 56.7 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 6.7 kB, which is 11% 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 47.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 129.9 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Study Abroad Gwu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 1.0 MB

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

-1%

Potential reduce by 815 B

  • Original 86.0 kB
  • After minification 86.0 kB
  • After compression 85.1 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. Studyabroad.gwu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (69%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Study Abroad Gwu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

studyabroad.gwu.edu accessibility score

90

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 IDs are not unique

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

studyabroad.gwu.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

studyabroad.gwu.edu SEO score

93

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 Studyabroad.gwu.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 Studyabroad.gwu.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 Study Abroad Gwu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: