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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 95% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

counseling.vcu.edu

University Counseling Services - Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

121 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.1 sec

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About Website

Visit counseling.vcu.edu now to see the best up-to-date Counseling Vcu content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about counseling.vcu.edu

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 121 ms and then it took 4.7 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

counseling.vcu.edu performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

72/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

55/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,630 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.208

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

counseling.vcu.edu

121 ms

counseling.vcu.edu

113 ms

cwf.page-layout.css

121 ms

DSA-CWF.css

211 ms

plugin.hero.css

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 40% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Counseling.vcu.edu, 19% (9 requests) were made to Branding.vcu.edu and 9% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (983 ms) relates to the external source Use.fontawesome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 33.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

312.2 kB

After Optimization

278.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Counseling.vcu.edu main page is 312.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 223.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 35.9 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 32.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 223.3 kB
  • After minification 222.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 81 B

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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 21 (50%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

counseling.vcu.edu

counseling.vcu.edu

121 ms

counseling.vcu.edu

counseling.vcu.edu

113 ms

cwf.page-layout.css

cwf.page-layout.css

121 ms

DSA-CWF.css

DSA-CWF.css

211 ms

plugin.hero.css

plugin.hero.css

191 ms

plugin.card.css

plugin.card.css

188 ms

cwf.header.css

cwf.header.css

130 ms

cwf.nav.css

cwf.nav.css

191 ms

cwf.footer.css

cwf.footer.css

287 ms

js

js

304 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

269 ms

latest.js

latest.js

303 ms

cwf.page-layout.js

cwf.page-layout.js

402 ms

sorttable.js

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406 ms

cwf.header.js

cwf.header.js

405 ms

cwf.nav.js

cwf.nav.js

407 ms

css2

css2

307 ms

css2

css2

314 ms

all.css

all.css

382 ms

students.jpg

students.jpg

292 ms

virtual-support-groups.jpg

virtual-support-groups.jpg

338 ms

UCS_Group_Photo.png

UCS_Group_Photo.png

688 ms

students_feature.jpg

students_feature.jpg

380 ms

faculty-staff.jpg

faculty-staff.jpg

379 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

489 ms

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fa-regular-400.ttf

487 ms

vcu-seal.svg

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123 ms

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983 ms

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680 ms

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gtm.js

130 ms

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372 ms

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335 ms

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630 ms

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628 ms

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625 ms

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vcu-seal--gold.png

630 ms

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vcu-wearetheuncommon--black-gold.png

927 ms

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926 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

87 ms

js

js

101 ms

js

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449 ms

collect

collect

511 ms

collect

collect

733 ms

collect

collect

507 ms

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modules.f0cd1ed70b545da08b60.js

341 ms

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223 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

63 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

97

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: