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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

my.vt.edu

Service Catalog - Service Portal

Page Load Speed

942 ms in total

First Response

44 ms

Resources Loaded

731 ms

Page Rendered

167 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed My.vt.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 44 ms and then it took 898 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

my.vt.edu performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

my.vt.edu

44 ms

render.userLayoutRootNode.uP;jsessionid=86A37987520A32FD9E28DB3B29530CDF.mt-prod-1

122 ms

fss-mobile-theme-iphone.min.css

63 ms

fss-framework-1.1.2.min.css

57 ms

fss-theme-mist.min.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original My.vt.edu, 21% (6 requests) were made to Secure.hosting.vt.edu and 7% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (206 ms) belongs to the original domain My.vt.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 440.1 kB (70%)

Content Size

630.2 kB

After Optimization

190.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of My.vt.edu main page is 630.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 489.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 21.6 kB
  • After minification 20.5 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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 16.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 17.0 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, My Vt needs image optimization as it can save up to 6.7 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 340.3 kB

  • Original 489.9 kB
  • After minification 489.9 kB
  • After compression 149.6 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 340.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 93.7 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. My.vt.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (38%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of My Vt. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

my.vt.edu

my.vt.edu

44 ms

render.userLayoutRootNode.uP;jsessionid=86A37987520A32FD9E28DB3B29530CDF.mt-prod-1

render.userLayoutRootNode.uP;jsessionid=86A37987520A32FD9E28DB3B29530CDF.mt-prod-1

122 ms

fss-mobile-theme-iphone.min.css

fss-mobile-theme-iphone.min.css

63 ms

fss-framework-1.1.2.min.css

fss-framework-1.1.2.min.css

57 ms

fss-theme-mist.min.css

fss-theme-mist.min.css

65 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2-smoothness.min.css

jquery-ui-1.7.2-smoothness.min.css

68 ms

zTJODcvMNpWNXLbmuReHOA.aggr.min.css

zTJODcvMNpWNXLbmuReHOA.aggr.min.css

55 ms

adFTtq2Pz8zt2hfZiqBGqw.aggr.min.css

adFTtq2Pz8zt2hfZiqBGqw.aggr.min.css

57 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

91 ms

jquery.cookie-1.0.min.js

jquery.cookie-1.0.min.js

100 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.2.min.js

jquery-ui-1.7.2.min.js

117 ms

fluid-all-1.1.2.min.js

fluid-all-1.1.2.min.js

129 ms

Lv9MJGR-IXL-YZ5sieZYnw.aggr.min.js

Lv9MJGR-IXL-YZ5sieZYnw.aggr.min.js

88 ms

myvt.png

myvt.png

154 ms

ga.js

ga.js

166 ms

grey_gradient.gif

grey_gradient.gif

153 ms

portal_logo.png

portal_logo.png

144 ms

myvt_tab.png

myvt_tab.png

145 ms

portlet_corner_bottomright.png

portlet_corner_bottomright.png

147 ms

top_white_fade_flat.png

top_white_fade_flat.png

150 ms

portlet_title_bkd.gif

portlet_title_bkd.gif

149 ms

maximize.png

maximize.png

206 ms

tab-home.png

tab-home.png

150 ms

tab-courses.png

tab-courses.png

158 ms

tab-personal-info.png

tab-personal-info.png

160 ms

tab-community.png

tab-community.png

161 ms

tab-services.png

tab-services.png

161 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

27 ms

Accessibility Review

my.vt.edu accessibility score

65

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

my.vt.edu best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

my.vt.edu SEO score

50

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise My.vt.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that My.vt.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

my.vt.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of My Vt. 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: