Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

vanguard.edu

Vanguard University - Top Christian University in Orange County, California

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

32 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

461 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vanguard.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 32 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vanguard.edu performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.438

21/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vanguard.edu

32 ms

www.vanguard.edu

182 ms

gtm.js

47 ms

application-64ed16b1c93340e7053499251282dfc43d3b3882105392bb4729fc427b533ffd.css

159 ms

styles.cfm

191 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Vanguard.edu, 16% (10 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 11% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (541 ms) belongs to the original domain Vanguard.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

924.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Vanguard.edu main page is 1.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 758.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 106.6 kB

  • Original 127.6 kB
  • After minification 125.0 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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. 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 106.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 837 B

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 6.5 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. Obviously, Vanguard needs image optimization as it can save up to 837 B or 11% 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 3.9 kB

  • Original 758.1 kB
  • After minification 758.1 kB
  • After compression 754.2 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 155.9 kB
  • After minification 155.9 kB
  • After compression 142.8 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. Vanguard.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (81%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

10

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vanguard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vanguard.edu accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

vanguard.edu best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

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