Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

ica.vcu.edu

Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

430 ms in total

First Response

123 ms

Resources Loaded

238 ms

Page Rendered

69 ms

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ICA at VCU presents the art of our time and provides an open forum for dialogue and collaboration across the region and throughout the world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ica.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 123 ms and then it took 307 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only 5% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ica.vcu.edu performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ica.vcu.edu

123 ms

redirects.css

26 ms

redirects.js

23 ms

latest.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Ica.vcu.edu, 25% (1 request) were made to Branding.vcu.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (123 ms) belongs to the original domain Ica.vcu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.1 kB (29%)

Content Size

10.6 kB

After Optimization

7.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Ica.vcu.edu main page is 10.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 6.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.7 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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 847 B, which is 23% 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 2.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 653 B

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 653 B or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 77 B

  • Original 902 B
  • After minification 902 B
  • After compression 825 B

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. Ica.vcu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ica Vcu. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

ica.vcu.edu accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

ica.vcu.edu best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

ica.vcu.edu SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

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 Ica.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 Ica.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 Ica 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: