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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 90% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

vpn.gwu.edu

Virtual Private Network (VPN) | GW Information Technology | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

959 ms

Page Rendered

140 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vpn.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 1.1 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

vpn.gwu.edu performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Vpn.gwu.edu, 58% (28 requests) were made to It.gwu.edu and 21% (10 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (270 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

778.3 kB

After Optimization

704.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vpn.gwu.edu main page is 778.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 520.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 52.8 kB

  • Original 70.7 kB
  • After minification 63.4 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 52.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 49.4 kB
  • After minification 46.6 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. VPN GW U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 138.0 kB
  • After minification 138.0 kB
  • After compression 120.5 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 17.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 132 B

  • Original 520.2 kB
  • After minification 520.1 kB
  • After compression 520.0 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. Vpn.gwu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (69%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VPN GW U. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 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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Accessibility Review

vpn.gwu.edu accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

vpn.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

vpn.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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Vpn.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 Vpn.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

vpn.gwu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of VPN GW U. 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: