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Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

library.gwu.edu

Libraries & Academic Innovation | Libraries & Academic Innovation

Page Load Speed

650 ms in total

First Response

88 ms

Resources Loaded

372 ms

Page Rendered

190 ms

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About Website

Welcome to library.gwu.edu homepage info - get ready to check Library Gwu best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about library.gwu.edu

GW Libraries at the George Washington University, including the Gelman Library on the Foggy Bottom Campus, Eckles Library at Mount Vernon Campus, and the Virginia Science and Technology Campus Library

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Key Findings

We analyzed Library.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 88 ms and then it took 562 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

library.gwu.edu performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.301

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

library.gwu.edu

88 ms

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87 ms

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40 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Library.gwu.edu, 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (88 ms) belongs to the original domain Library.gwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 533.3 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

894.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Library.gwu.edu main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 859.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 76.7 kB

  • Original 97.1 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 11.8 kB, which is 12% 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 76.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 81.3 kB

  • Original 859.3 kB
  • After minification 778.0 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. Library Gwu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 275.9 kB

  • Original 346.3 kB
  • After minification 228.4 kB
  • After compression 70.3 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 275.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 99.4 kB

  • Original 125.3 kB
  • After minification 122.4 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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. Library.gwu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (39%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Library 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 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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88 ms

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11 ms

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75 ms

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87 ms

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40 ms

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Accessibility Review

library.gwu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

library.gwu.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

SEO Factors

library.gwu.edu SEO score

81

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 Library.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 Library.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

library.gwu.edu

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