Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% 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

eap.columbian.gwu.edu

The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Program | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

178 ms in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

75 ms

Page Rendered

70 ms

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The CCAS English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Program at GW prepares students to meet academic expectations for communication at the university level.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eap.columbian.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 145 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Eap.columbian.gwu.edu rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

eap.columbian.gwu.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value520 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.167

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eap.columbian.gwu.edu

33 ms

cf.errors.css

4 ms

browser-bar.png

5 ms

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Eap.columbian.gwu.edu and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (33 ms) belongs to the original domain Eap.columbian.gwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

12.9 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Eap.columbian.gwu.edu main page is 12.9 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 4.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 474 B, 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 2.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB

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. EAP Columbian Gwu images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Eap.columbian.gwu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EAP Columbian Gwu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

eap.columbian.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

eap.columbian.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

SEO Factors

eap.columbian.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 Eap.columbian.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 Eap.columbian.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 description is not detected on the main page of EAP Columbian Gwu. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: