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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value510 ms

57/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

apply.vcsu.edu

514 ms

876 ms

style.min.css

69 ms

frontend.min.css

148 ms

jquery-ui.css

186 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Apply.vcsu.edu, 49% (49 requests) were made to Vcsu.edu and 24% (24 requests) were made to Embedsocial.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (902 ms) relates to the external source Vcsu.edu.

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Apply.vcsu.edu main page is 3.5 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 75.5 kB

Original 94.5 kB
After minification 94.5 kB
After compression 18.9 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 75.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 461.9 kB

Original 2.5 MB
After minification 2.1 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, Apply Vcsu needs image optimization as it can save up to 461.9 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

Original 771.1 kB
After minification 771.1 kB
After compression 760.4 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 37.7 kB

Original 145.8 kB
After minification 133.3 kB
After compression 108.1 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. Apply.vcsu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.7 kB or 26% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 93 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apply Vcsu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.