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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

counseling.vcu.edu

University Counseling Services - Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

865 ms in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

374 ms

Page Rendered

461 ms

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About Website

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Confidential advocates provide non-therapeutic support to help students determine their needs after experiencing sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Counseling.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 835 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

counseling.vcu.edu performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.205

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.8 s

22/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

counseling.vcu.edu

30 ms

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50 ms

cwf.page-layout.css

30 ms

DSA-CWF.css

44 ms

plugin.hero.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Counseling.vcu.edu, 14% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (136 ms) relates to the external source Static.hotjar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Counseling.vcu.edu main page is 1.1 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 988.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 25.8 kB
  • After minification 21.8 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.0 kB, which is 15% 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 20.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 988.7 kB
  • After minification 960.5 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. Counseling Vcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 2.5 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 274 B

  • Original 37.5 kB
  • After minification 37.5 kB
  • After compression 37.2 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. Counseling.vcu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (67%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Counseling Vcu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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30 ms

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50 ms

cwf.page-layout.css

cwf.page-layout.css

30 ms

DSA-CWF.css

DSA-CWF.css

44 ms

plugin.hero.css

plugin.hero.css

33 ms

plugin.card.css

plugin.card.css

45 ms

cwf.header.css

cwf.header.css

42 ms

cwf.nav.css

cwf.nav.css

41 ms

cwf.footer.css

cwf.footer.css

62 ms

js

js

81 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

23 ms

latest.js

latest.js

59 ms

cwf.page-layout.js

cwf.page-layout.js

60 ms

sorttable.js

sorttable.js

66 ms

cwf.header.js

cwf.header.js

68 ms

cwf.nav.js

cwf.nav.js

68 ms

css2

css2

39 ms

css2

css2

80 ms

all.css

all.css

45 ms

students.jpg

students.jpg

91 ms

hotjar-1619874.js

hotjar-1619874.js

136 ms

studentsupport1.jpg

studentsupport1.jpg

45 ms

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_UCS_Staff_Group_Photo_Final.png

109 ms

students_feature.jpg

students_feature.jpg

48 ms

faculty-staff.jpg

faculty-staff.jpg

47 ms

vcu-seal.svg

vcu-seal.svg

40 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

28 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

20 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

30 ms

Accessibility Review

counseling.vcu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

counseling.vcu.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

SEO Factors

counseling.vcu.edu SEO score

98

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 Counseling.vcu.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 Counseling.vcu.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

counseling.vcu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Counseling Vcu. 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: