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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

registrar.gwu.edu

Office of the Registrar | Academic Affairs | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

668 ms in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

419 ms

Page Rendered

193 ms

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About Website

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

The Office of the Registrar maintains academic records from enrollment through graduation and offers services in the areas of classroom scheduling, enrollment verification, registration, requirements ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Registrar.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms and then it took 612 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

registrar.gwu.edu performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.2 s

50/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Registrar.gwu.edu, 7% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com and 3% (1 request) were made to M.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (80 ms) belongs to the original domain Registrar.gwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 666.5 kB (57%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

501.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Registrar.gwu.edu main page is 1.2 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. Javascripts take 639.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 68.6 kB

  • Original 92.3 kB
  • After minification 86.8 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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 68.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 307.6 kB
  • After minification 260.5 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, Registrar Gwu needs image optimization as it can save up to 47.1 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

-70%

Potential reduce by 448.3 kB

  • Original 639.6 kB
  • After minification 565.0 kB
  • After compression 191.3 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 448.3 kB or 70% 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. Registrar.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 11 (38%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Registrar 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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56 ms

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55 ms

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Accessibility Review

registrar.gwu.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

registrar.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

registrar.gwu.edu SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Registrar.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 Registrar.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

registrar.gwu.edu

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