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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

vhwda.org

VHWDA | Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

114 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

459 ms

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About Website

Welcome to vhwda.org homepage info - get ready to check VHWDA best content right away, or after learning these important things about vhwda.org

The Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority is dedicated to ensuring that Virginia has an optimal healthcare workforce.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vhwda.org page load time and found that the first response time was 114 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vhwda.org performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.215

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vhwda.org

114 ms

www.vhwda.org

305 ms

css2

48 ms

template.css

58 ms

custom.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Vhwda.org, 6% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (369 ms) belongs to the original domain Vhwda.org.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.7 kB (17%)

Content Size

543.3 kB

After Optimization

448.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vhwda.org main page is 543.3 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 476.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.4 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 12.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 78.8 kB

  • Original 476.4 kB
  • After minification 397.6 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, VHWDA needs image optimization as it can save up to 78.8 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 244 B

  • Original 11.7 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 37.3 kB
  • After minification 37.3 kB
  • After compression 34.0 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. Vhwda.org has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (45%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VHWDA. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

vhwda.org

vhwda.org

114 ms

www.vhwda.org

www.vhwda.org

305 ms

css2

css2

48 ms

template.css

template.css

58 ms

custom.css

custom.css

114 ms

custom-variables.css

custom-variables.css

161 ms

fontawesome.css

fontawesome.css

166 ms

menu.min.css

menu.min.css

159 ms

joomla-alert.css

joomla-alert.css

162 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

173 ms

messages-es5.min.js

messages-es5.min.js

211 ms

messages.min.js

messages.min.js

213 ms

jquery-3.6.3.min.js

jquery-3.6.3.min.js

31 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

34 ms

slippry.min.js

slippry.min.js

214 ms

slippry.css

slippry.css

215 ms

js

js

71 ms

logo.png

logo.png

71 ms

triangle-right.png

triangle-right.png

69 ms

hero-homepage.jpg

hero-homepage.jpg

209 ms

ekg-animate.svg

ekg-animate.svg

68 ms

img-homepage-purpose.jpg

img-homepage-purpose.jpg

149 ms

img-homepage-work.jpg

img-homepage-work.jpg

162 ms

img-homepage-discover.jpg

img-homepage-discover.jpg

211 ms

bk-triangles.png

bk-triangles.png

369 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

110 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

164 ms

x.png

x.png

203 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

214 ms

img-prev.png

img-prev.png

149 ms

img-next.png

img-next.png

189 ms

Accessibility Review

vhwda.org accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

vhwda.org 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

vhwda.org SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Vhwda.org 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 Vhwda.org 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

vhwda.org

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