Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

ibuy.gwu.edu

iBuy | Finance Division | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

132 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

646 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ibuy.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 132 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ibuy.gwu.edu performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.379

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ibuy.gwu.edu

132 ms

google_tag.script.js

91 ms

css_fRysJFqc_h4er9Vqid8L9eeHirZ6DDEhqScKKgTNgeY.css

272 ms

css_52auHpxeuYsliYy6CH54zLhHha_0XdQX3HtuFphpUFw.css

200 ms

css_1LpC9ddiJMRgdf8YNs77WgYYAY48zsSPIq6ymye7e8Y.css

299 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Ibuy.gwu.edu, 22% (10 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (681 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

881.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Ibuy.gwu.edu main page is 1.0 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. 75% 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 779.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 72.3 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 55.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 779.8 kB
  • After minification 718.2 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. IBuy Gwu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 58.3 kB
  • After minification 58.3 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 258 B

  • Original 89.9 kB
  • After minification 89.9 kB
  • After compression 89.6 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. Ibuy.gwu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (73%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IBuy 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 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ibuy.gwu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ibuy.gwu.edu best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ibuy.gwu.edu SEO score

90

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 Ibuy.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 Ibuy.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of IBuy Gwu. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: