Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

enrollment.vcu.edu

Strategic Enrollment Management and Student Success - Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

55 ms

Resources Loaded

685 ms

Page Rendered

269 ms

enrollment.vcu.edu screenshot

About Website

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The Virginia Commonwealth University Division of Strategic Enrollment Management provides primary oversight for the recruitment, retention and graduation of students at all levels.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Enrollment.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 55 ms and then it took 954 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

enrollment.vcu.edu performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.244

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

enrollment.vcu.edu

55 ms

www.sem.vcu.edu

52 ms

normalize.css

30 ms

foundation.min.css

62 ms

flexnav.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Enrollment.vcu.edu, 89% (41 requests) were made to Sem.vcu.edu and 4% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (297 ms) relates to the external source Sem.vcu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 498.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

828.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Enrollment.vcu.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 836.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 22.4 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 4.1 kB, which is 15% 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 20.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 836.6 kB
  • After minification 734.3 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, Enrollment Vcu needs image optimization as it can save up to 102.3 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 181.5 kB

  • Original 242.8 kB
  • After minification 203.1 kB
  • After compression 61.3 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 181.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 193.9 kB

  • Original 221.5 kB
  • After minification 188.5 kB
  • After compression 27.6 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. Enrollment.vcu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 193.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (32%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Enrollment Vcu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

enrollment.vcu.edu accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

enrollment.vcu.edu best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

enrollment.vcu.edu SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Enrollment.vcu.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 Enrollment.vcu.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 description is not detected on the main page of Enrollment Vcu. 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: