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vic.edu

Virginia Intermont College | Private Liberal Arts Based College In Bristol, Virginia

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

250 ms

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About Website

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Virginia Intermont College (VI) is a prestigious liberal arts based college located in Bristol, Virginia (Bristol, Tennessee).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vic.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

www.vic.edu

1518 ms

style.css

212 ms

jquery.min.js

39 ms

jquery.min.js

49 ms

459ebd81_ai1ec_parsed_css.css

433 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Vic.edu, 5% (4 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 1% (1 request) were made to L.yimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Vic.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 790.3 kB (49%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

806.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Vic.edu main page is 1.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 890.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 126.8 kB

  • Original 146.6 kB
  • After minification 136.2 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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 126.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 220.6 kB

  • Original 890.7 kB
  • After minification 670.1 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. Obviously, Vic needs image optimization as it can save up to 220.6 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 204.9 kB

  • Original 276.4 kB
  • After minification 226.1 kB
  • After compression 71.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 204.9 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 238.1 kB

  • Original 283.4 kB
  • After minification 234.5 kB
  • After compression 45.3 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. Vic.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 238.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (71%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Vic.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 Vic.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 description is not detected on the main page of Vic. 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: