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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% 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

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

provost.vcu.edu

Provost - Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

572 ms in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

320 ms

Page Rendered

223 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Provost.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 543 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

provost.vcu.edu performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.256

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

provost.vcu.edu

29 ms

provost.vcu.edu

48 ms

cwf.page-layout.css

47 ms

cwf.theme.css

44 ms

css2

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Provost.vcu.edu, 13% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 13% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (81 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

907.4 kB

After Optimization

891.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Provost.vcu.edu main page is 907.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 839.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 3.2 kB, which is 17% 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 15.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 369 B

  • Original 839.5 kB
  • After minification 839.1 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. Provost Vcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 48 B

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 12.6 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 134 B

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 36.0 kB
  • After compression 35.9 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. Provost.vcu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (75%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Provost 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

provost.vcu.edu

provost.vcu.edu

29 ms

provost.vcu.edu

provost.vcu.edu

48 ms

cwf.page-layout.css

cwf.page-layout.css

47 ms

cwf.theme.css

cwf.theme.css

44 ms

css2

css2

69 ms

plugin.hero.css

plugin.hero.css

49 ms

plugin.card.css

plugin.card.css

46 ms

cwf.header.css

cwf.header.css

42 ms

cwf.nav.css

cwf.nav.css

43 ms

cwf.footer.css

cwf.footer.css

74 ms

js

js

81 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

28 ms

latest.js

latest.js

61 ms

cwf.page-layout.js

cwf.page-layout.js

70 ms

cwf.header.js

cwf.header.js

72 ms

cwf.nav.js

cwf.nav.js

71 ms

css2

css2

29 ms

css2

css2

28 ms

all.css

all.css

74 ms

JulyinCabell004.jpg

JulyinCabell004.jpg

72 ms

gintersq2.jpg

gintersq2.jpg

21 ms

vcu-seal.svg

vcu-seal.svg

37 ms

fa-solid-900.ttf

fa-solid-900.ttf

31 ms

fa-regular-400.ttf

fa-regular-400.ttf

20 ms

Accessibility Review

provost.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

provost.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

provost.vcu.edu SEO score

89

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 Provost.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 Provost.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

provost.vcu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Provost 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: