Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

vwu.edu

Virginia Wesleyan University is Coastal Virginia's premier university of the liberal arts and sciences | Virginia Wesleyan University

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

467 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Virginia Wesleyan University is Coastal Virginia's premier university of the liberal arts and sciences, annually enrolling 1,600 students in undergraduate, graduate, and online programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 467 ms and then it took 2.6 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

vwu.edu performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vwu.edu

467 ms

css2

64 ms

bootstrap.min2023.css

52 ms

vwu-global2023.min.css

127 ms

vwu-buttons2023.min.css

89 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Vwu.edu, 25% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (697 ms) belongs to the original domain Vwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 113.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

438.4 kB

After Optimization

324.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Vwu.edu main page is 438.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 183.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 86.2 kB

  • Original 102.9 kB
  • After minification 84.0 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 18.9 kB, which is 18% 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 86.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 183.6 kB
  • After minification 166.1 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. Vwu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 30.4 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 9.8 kB

  • Original 121.5 kB
  • After minification 121.5 kB
  • After compression 111.7 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. Vwu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (35%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vwu. 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 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vwu.edu accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

vwu.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vwu.edu SEO score

100

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

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