Tools & Wizards About Us
journals.villanova.edu screenshot

Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

journals.villanova.edu

Falvey Library :: Journals Hosted by Falvey Library

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

journals.villanova.edu screenshot

About Website

Welcome to journals.villanova.edu homepage info - get ready to check Journals Villanova best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about journals.villanova.edu

Journals at Villanova University, a service provided by Falvey Library. This service is intended for both Villanova faculty and Falvey Library partners wishing to publish an online open-access journal...

Visit journals.villanova.edu

Key Findings

We analyzed Journals.villanova.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

journals.villanova.edu performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.106

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

journals.villanova.edu

100 ms

93 ms

298 ms

journals-at-villanova-university

286 ms

normalize-8.0.0.css

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Journals.villanova.edu, 88% (36 requests) were made to Library.villanova.edu and 5% (2 requests) were made to Morpheus.library.villanova.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (575 ms) relates to the external source Library.villanova.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 284.9 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

903.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Journals.villanova.edu main page is 1.2 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 847.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 19.0 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 2.9 kB, which is 13% 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 15.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 42.0 kB

  • Original 847.2 kB
  • After minification 805.2 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. Journals Villanova images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 132.9 kB

  • Original 199.4 kB
  • After minification 199.4 kB
  • After compression 66.6 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 132.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 94.7 kB

  • Original 119.7 kB
  • After minification 100.0 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. Journals.villanova.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 94.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (52%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Journals Villanova. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

journals.villanova.edu

journals.villanova.edu

100 ms

93 ms

298 ms

journals-at-villanova-university

journals-at-villanova-university

286 ms

normalize-8.0.0.css

normalize-8.0.0.css

59 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

210 ms

tooltip.only.min.css

tooltip.only.min.css

97 ms

vu-fonts.css

vu-fonts.css

97 ms

vu-common-base.css

vu-common-base.css

130 ms

style-base.css

style-base.css

102 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

197 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

137 ms

js

js

57 ms

libraryh3lp.js

libraryh3lp.js

26 ms

shared-nav.js

shared-nav.js

109 ms

nav.js

nav.js

107 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

165 ms

vu-common-wide.css

vu-common-wide.css

32 ms

style-wide.css

style-wide.css

33 ms

VU05WHITE_32h.png

VU05WHITE_32h.png

72 ms

VU23WHITE_64h.png

VU23WHITE_64h.png

54 ms

caret-down.png

caret-down.png

56 ms

4655

4655

531 ms

Expositions_Badge.png

Expositions_Badge.png

124 ms

JCHE_Badge.png

JCHE_Badge.png

92 ms

Praxis_Badge.png

Praxis_Badge.png

152 ms

JBH_Banner.png

JBH_Banner.png

128 ms

0

0

433 ms

4655

4655

575 ms

4655

4655

532 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

183 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

140 ms

Gotham-Book.otf

Gotham-Book.otf

242 ms

Gotham-Medium.otf

Gotham-Medium.otf

276 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

280 ms

piwik.php

piwik.php

140 ms

Veritas_Badge.png

Veritas_Badge.png

92 ms

Concept_Badge.png

Concept_Badge.png

64 ms

Puncta_Badge.png

Puncta_Badge.png

93 ms

UGEBGE_Badge.png

UGEBGE_Badge.png

65 ms

style-print.css

style-print.css

35 ms

Accessibility Review

journals.villanova.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

journals.villanova.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

journals.villanova.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 Journals.villanova.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 Journals.villanova.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

journals.villanova.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Journals Villanova. 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: