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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

elliott.gwu.edu

Elliott School of International Affairs | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

50 ms

Resources Loaded

746 ms

Page Rendered

259 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elliott.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 50 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elliott.gwu.edu performance score

35

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value480 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.5 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Elliott.gwu.edu, 4% (3 requests) were made to Trumba.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (409 ms) relates to the external source Trumba.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 815.3 kB (47%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

902.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Elliott.gwu.edu main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 770.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 86.1 kB

  • Original 114.8 kB
  • After minification 106.3 kB
  • After compression 28.7 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. 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 86.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 102.4 kB

  • Original 703.8 kB
  • After minification 601.4 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, Elliott Gwu needs image optimization as it can save up to 102.4 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 524.4 kB

  • Original 770.6 kB
  • After minification 694.3 kB
  • After compression 246.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 524.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 102.5 kB

  • Original 128.2 kB
  • After minification 124.6 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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. Elliott.gwu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (42%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elliott Gwu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

elliott.gwu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

elliott.gwu.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

elliott.gwu.edu SEO score

83

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 Elliott.gwu.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 Elliott.gwu.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

elliott.gwu.edu

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