Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% 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

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu

GW Language Center | Columbian College of Arts & Sciences | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

910 ms in total

First Response

36 ms

Resources Loaded

576 ms

Page Rendered

298 ms

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The GW Language Center provides language testing, tutoring and more tools to ensure the highest caliber of teaching in Columbian College’s language programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 36 ms and then it took 874 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

79/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value990 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.383

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu

36 ms

languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu

58 ms

css_hHjcQ0azVorY8GZCGY6gvQ-8YODg07iIQ5ewYN7K2g4.css

24 ms

css_adxcA9tx8dtp54GDlnafilBMfBNqqur7Ljh5R0WAeHQ.css

38 ms

css_0-4l52PKI5Q2mNKPHRWS0KWeUQvnKKknLyNRlduH14s.css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu, 9% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Kit.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (181 ms) belongs to the original domain Languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

546.7 kB

After Optimization

494.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu main page is 546.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 210.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 47.3 kB

  • Original 61.3 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 14.0 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 47.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 186.4 kB
  • After minification 183.1 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. Language Center Columbian GW U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 373 B

  • Original 210.7 kB
  • After minification 210.7 kB
  • After compression 210.3 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 940 B

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 88.3 kB
  • After compression 87.3 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. Languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (72%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Language Center Columbian GW U. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

languagecenter.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

languagecenter.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

languagecenter.columbian.gwu.edu SEO score

90

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

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 Languagecenter.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 Languagecenter.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 data is detected on the main page of Language Center Columbian GW U. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: