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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

aaec.vt.edu

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics | Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics | Virginia Tech

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

681 ms

About Website

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Virginia Tech AAEC contributes to relevant teaching, Extension, and applied research in food and health, natural resource, development, trade, and agribusiness economics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aaec.vt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aaec.vt.edu performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aaec.vt.edu

24 ms

aaec.vt.edu

77 ms

jquery-3.cms.min.js

21 ms

popper.min.js

32 ms

bootstrap.min.js

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Aaec.vt.edu, 52% (46 requests) were made to Assets.cms.vt.edu and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) relates to the external source Static.hotjar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 600.7 kB (11%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aaec.vt.edu main page is 5.4 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. 80% 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 158.0 kB

  • Original 180.3 kB
  • After minification 154.4 kB
  • After compression 22.3 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 25.9 kB, which is 14% 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 158.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 441.8 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Obviously, Aaec Vt needs image optimization as it can save up to 441.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 571 B

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 1.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 287 B

  • Original 97.1 kB
  • After minification 97.1 kB
  • After compression 96.8 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. Aaec.vt.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (19%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

46

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aaec 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

aaec.vt.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

aaec.vt.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

aaec.vt.edu SEO score

83

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 Aaec.vt.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 Aaec.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 data is detected on the main page of Aaec Vt. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: