Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

vpn.gwu.edu

VPN - Global Protect | GW Information Technology | The George Washington University

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

15 ms

Resources Loaded

846 ms

Page Rendered

402 ms

vpn.gwu.edu screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vpn.gwu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 15 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vpn.gwu.edu performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,790 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.2

62/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vpn.gwu.edu

15 ms

virtual-private-network-vpn

186 ms

vpn-global-protect

44 ms

css_nHEzQ1Y5aDyzx6wMoby2WHGyhHUoUNx7vkIPP8vrDd4.css

31 ms

css_KYlritVVBLjrnIPG9aLl_MJ7Em3xMjIpUdlj8lEA9gM.css

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Vpn.gwu.edu, 73% (27 requests) were made to It.gwu.edu and 8% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (217 ms) relates to the external source It.gwu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 94.3 kB (8%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Vpn.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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 929.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 50.2 kB

  • Original 64.1 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 13.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.8 kB, which is 11% 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 50.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 177.3 kB
  • After minification 136.1 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, VPN GW U needs image optimization as it can save up to 41.2 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 929.7 kB
  • After minification 929.7 kB
  • After compression 927.7 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 794 B

  • Original 85.0 kB
  • After minification 85.0 kB
  • After compression 84.2 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 17 (55%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 31 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vpn.gwu.edu accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vpn.gwu.edu SEO score

91

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 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

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