Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 99

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 96% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

apply.vcsu.edu

Apply to Valley City State University and jumpstart your future!

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

514 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

560 ms

apply.vcsu.edu screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apply.vcsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 514 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apply.vcsu.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

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%

Network Requests Diagram

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.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 553.1 kB (16%)

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 771.3 kB
  • After minification 771.3 kB
  • After compression 760.7 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 113.2 kB
  • After minification 113.2 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 has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 63 (68%)

Requests Now

93

After Optimization

30

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.

Accessibility Review

apply.vcsu.edu accessibility score

99

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

apply.vcsu.edu best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

apply.vcsu.edu SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Apply.vcsu.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 Apply.vcsu.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 Apply Vcsu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: