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admissionblog.richmond.edu

Admission Blog - University of Richmond

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

225 ms

Resources Loaded

721 ms

Page Rendered

480 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Admissionblog.richmond.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 225 ms and then it took 1.2 sec 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

admissionblog.richmond.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

admissionblog.richmond.edu

225 ms

fonts.css

163 ms

default.css

177 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

107 ms

loader.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Admissionblog.richmond.edu, 52% (16 requests) were made to Assets.richmond.edu and 10% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (225 ms) belongs to the original domain Admissionblog.richmond.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 908.6 kB (45%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Admissionblog.richmond.edu main page is 2.0 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. CSS take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 25.0 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 17.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 45.4 kB

  • Original 743.0 kB
  • After minification 697.6 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. Admission Blog Richmond images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 161.8 kB

  • Original 232.6 kB
  • After minification 192.5 kB
  • After compression 70.9 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 161.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 684.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 920.4 kB
  • After compression 331.4 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. Admissionblog.richmond.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 684.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (46%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Admission Blog Richmond. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

admissionblog.richmond.edu SEO score

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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 Admissionblog.richmond.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 Admissionblog.richmond.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 Admission Blog Richmond. 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: