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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

admissions.vcu.edu

Admissions - Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

499 ms

Page Rendered

1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissions.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

admissions.vcu.edu performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.429

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

admissions.vcu.edu

31 ms

admissions.vcu.edu

55 ms

cwf.page-layout.css

44 ms

global.css

38 ms

owl.carouel.min.css

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Admissions.vcu.edu, 8% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Branding.vcu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (401 ms) belongs to the original domain Admissions.vcu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Admissions.vcu.edu main page is 2.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 60.8 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 6.9 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 49.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Admissions Vcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 50.8 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 54.2 kB
  • After minification 54.2 kB
  • After compression 49.3 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. Admissions.vcu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (64%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admissions Vcu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

admissions.vcu.edu accessibility score

91

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

admissions.vcu.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

admissions.vcu.edu SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Admissions.vcu.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 Admissions.vcu.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 Admissions Vcu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: