Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 85

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

sahp.vcu.edu

VCU College of Health Professions

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

243 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

345 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sahp.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 243 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sahp.vcu.edu performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value49.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sahp.vcu.edu

243 ms

normalize.css

949 ms

foundation.min.css

452 ms

flexnav.css

1005 ms

flexslider.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Sahp.vcu.edu, 8% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Sahp.vcu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (56%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

775.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Sahp.vcu.edu main page is 1.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 674.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 38.2 kB

  • Original 46.0 kB
  • After minification 39.4 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 6.6 kB, which is 14% 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 38.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 24.0 kB

  • Original 558.1 kB
  • After minification 534.1 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. Sahp VCU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 516.8 kB

  • Original 674.7 kB
  • After minification 505.6 kB
  • After compression 157.9 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 516.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 421.6 kB

  • Original 497.0 kB
  • After minification 441.8 kB
  • After compression 75.3 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. Sahp.vcu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 421.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (44%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sahp 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sahp.vcu.edu accessibility score

90

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

sahp.vcu.edu best practices score

85

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

sahp.vcu.edu SEO score

90

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 Sahp.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 Sahp.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 Sahp 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: