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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% 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

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

payroll.gwu.edu

Payroll | Human Resource Management & Development | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

980 ms in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

670 ms

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

Visit payroll.gwu.edu now to see the best up-to-date Payroll Gwu content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about payroll.gwu.edu

The Payroll Services Department is dedicated to providing accurate and timely services to employees and other stakeholders.

Visit payroll.gwu.edu

Key Findings

We analyzed Payroll.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 863 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

payroll.gwu.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.401

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

payroll.gwu.edu

117 ms

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24 ms

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24 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Payroll.gwu.edu, 6% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (303 ms) belongs to the original domain Payroll.gwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 694.8 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

579.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Payroll.gwu.edu main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 684.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 65.0 kB

  • Original 87.5 kB
  • After minification 80.9 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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. 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 65.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 374.7 kB
  • After minification 324.0 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. Obviously, Payroll Gwu needs image optimization as it can save up to 50.7 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 476.5 kB

  • Original 684.0 kB
  • After minification 608.3 kB
  • After compression 207.6 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 476.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 102.6 kB

  • Original 128.4 kB
  • After minification 124.8 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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. Payroll.gwu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 102.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (52%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Payroll 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 8 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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117 ms

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14 ms

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24 ms

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22 ms

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57 ms

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59 ms

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20 ms

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15 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

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298 ms

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250 ms

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227 ms

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128 ms

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117 ms

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Accessibility Review

payroll.gwu.edu accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

payroll.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

payroll.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 Payroll.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 Payroll.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

payroll.gwu.edu

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