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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

matx.vcu.edu

MATX — Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

604 ms in total

First Response

61 ms

Resources Loaded

320 ms

Page Rendered

223 ms

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About Website

Visit matx.vcu.edu now to see the best up-to-date MATX Vcu content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about matx.vcu.edu

Emphasizing original scholarship and cross-disciplinary interaction, the program trains students to do innovative work at the intersections of media, art and text.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Matx.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 61 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

matx.vcu.edu performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value830 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.237

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

matx.vcu.edu

61 ms

flexslider.css

29 ms

main.css

41 ms

home.css

29 ms

jquery.min.js

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Matx.vcu.edu, 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (108 ms) belongs to the original domain Matx.vcu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.1 kB (21%)

Content Size

559.3 kB

After Optimization

444.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Matx.vcu.edu main page is 559.3 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 421.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 12.3 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 24% 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 9.2 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 30.0 kB

  • Original 421.5 kB
  • After minification 391.5 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. MATX Vcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 36.0 kB

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 61.5 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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 36.0 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 38.4 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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. Matx.vcu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 40.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (15%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MATX 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

matx.vcu.edu

matx.vcu.edu

61 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

29 ms

main.css

main.css

41 ms

home.css

home.css

29 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

67 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

38 ms

css3-mediaqueries.js

css3-mediaqueries.js

31 ms

reset.css

reset.css

11 ms

cmxform.css

cmxform.css

12 ms

form.css

form.css

11 ms

print.css

print.css

11 ms

bg_body.jpg

bg_body.jpg

54 ms

bg_header-identity.jpg

bg_header-identity.jpg

12 ms

img_vcu-name.png

img_vcu-name.png

11 ms

img_logo.png

img_logo.png

18 ms

img_logo-text.png

img_logo-text.png

11 ms

nav_main.jpg

nav_main.jpg

106 ms

icon_social_twitter.png

icon_social_twitter.png

12 ms

icon_social_facebook.png

icon_social_facebook.png

19 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

63 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

108 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

35 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

83 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

35 ms

6.jpg

6.jpg

84 ms

mission.png

mission.png

46 ms

newsAndEvents_home.png

newsAndEvents_home.png

55 ms

bg_control_nav.png

bg_control_nav.png

11 ms

bg_direction_nav.png

bg_direction_nav.png

11 ms

Accessibility Review

matx.vcu.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

matx.vcu.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

matx.vcu.edu SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Matx.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 Matx.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

matx.vcu.edu

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