Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% 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

transfer.vcu.edu

Transfer Center - Virginia Commonwealth University

Page Load Speed

1 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

781 ms

Page Rendered

194 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Transfer.vcu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 975 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

transfer.vcu.edu performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

transfer.vcu.edu

67 ms

normalize.css

20 ms

foundation.min.css

91 ms

flexnav.css

46 ms

flexslider.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Transfer.vcu.edu, 7% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Calendar.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (163 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.syndication.twimg.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 533.2 kB (69%)

Content Size

769.8 kB

After Optimization

236.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Transfer.vcu.edu main page is 769.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 429.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 23.8 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 2.6 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 18.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 72.5 kB
  • After minification 65.7 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. Transfer Vcu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 297.7 kB

  • Original 429.9 kB
  • After minification 390.2 kB
  • After compression 132.2 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 297.7 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 210.7 kB

  • Original 243.6 kB
  • After minification 210.6 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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. Transfer.vcu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 210.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (67%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Transfer 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 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

transfer.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

transfer.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

transfer.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 Transfer.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 Transfer.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 Transfer 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: