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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

som.gmu.edu

Home | Costello College of Business

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

192 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Som.gmu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

som.gmu.edu performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

67/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,460 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

som.gmu.edu

89 ms

business.gmu.edu

304 ms

jquery-ui.css

23 ms

nivo-slider.css

39 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Som.gmu.edu, 68% (49 requests) were made to Business.gmu.edu and 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (330 ms) relates to the external source Business.gmu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 386.8 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Som.gmu.edu main page is 1.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 941.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 41.3 kB
  • After minification 40.5 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 32.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 27.2 kB

  • Original 941.1 kB
  • After minification 913.9 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. Som Gmu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 112.0 kB

  • Original 178.1 kB
  • After minification 176.5 kB
  • After compression 66.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 112.0 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 215.1 kB

  • Original 244.3 kB
  • After minification 147.7 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. Som.gmu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 215.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (56%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Som Gmu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

som.gmu.edu

som.gmu.edu

89 ms

business.gmu.edu

business.gmu.edu

304 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

23 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

39 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

90 ms

style.css

style.css

76 ms

mod_eventcalendar.css

mod_eventcalendar.css

86 ms

style.css

style.css

83 ms

core.js

core.js

78 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

38 ms

jquerynoconflict.js

jquerynoconflict.js

85 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

56 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

117 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

118 ms

jquery.fancybox-media.js

jquery.fancybox-media.js

118 ms

slider-init.js

slider-init.js

120 ms

theme.css

theme.css

212 ms

custom.css

custom.css

119 ms

uikit.js

uikit.js

186 ms

autocomplete.js

autocomplete.js

152 ms

search.js

search.js

158 ms

sticky.js

sticky.js

157 ms

tooltip.js

tooltip.js

156 ms

social.js

social.js

187 ms

theme.js

theme.js

192 ms

css

css

64 ms

css

css

76 ms

header-banner.jpg

header-banner.jpg

257 ms

social_facebook_box_blue_24.png

social_facebook_box_blue_24.png

72 ms

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social_twitter_box_white_24.png

72 ms

Instagram-icon.png

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207 ms

social_linkedin_box_blue_24.png

social_linkedin_box_blue_24.png

71 ms

social_pinterest.png

social_pinterest.png

72 ms

social_youtube_box_white_24.png

social_youtube_box_white_24.png

89 ms

social_gplus-24.png

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89 ms

logo_som1.png

logo_som1.png

96 ms

business-logo2.png

business-logo2.png

95 ms

searchbox_magnifier.png

searchbox_magnifier.png

117 ms

business_logo_mobile.png

business_logo_mobile.png

140 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

141 ms

tuitioncoin.jpg

tuitioncoin.jpg

234 ms

sec-intern.jpg

sec-intern.jpg

255 ms

tripsync-new2016.jpg

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242 ms

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280 ms

mred-ethics-new.jpg

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267 ms

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300 ms

gilman-scholar-finney-new.jpg

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283 ms

tongren-gift-new.jpg

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318 ms

sliderSubNav-li-bg.png

sliderSubNav-li-bg.png

292 ms

button_apply.png

button_apply.png

305 ms

badge.png

badge.png

322 ms

graphic_one-rankings.png

graphic_one-rankings.png

320 ms

logo_aacsb_small2.png

logo_aacsb_small2.png

330 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

52 ms

slider-btn-prev.png

slider-btn-prev.png

271 ms

slider-btn-next.png

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275 ms

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133 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

35 ms

quant.js

quant.js

14 ms

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pixel;r=1888942132;a=p-E_wWLSccugrvG;labels=_fp.event.homepage;fpan=1;fpa=P0-1288319477-1456846798873;ns=0;ce=1;cm=;je=0;sr=1024x768x32;enc=n;dst=0;et=1456846798872;tzo=-180;ref=;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.gmu.edu%2F;ogl=

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collect

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18 ms

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22 ms

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35 ms

collect

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102 ms

collect

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68 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

54 ms

ga-audiences

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27 ms

Accessibility Review

som.gmu.edu accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

som.gmu.edu best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

som.gmu.edu SEO score

79

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

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 Som.gmu.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 Som.gmu.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

som.gmu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Som Gmu. 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: