Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

valdosta.edu

Valdosta State University - Valdosta State University

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Valdosta.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

valdosta.edu performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,920 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

valdosta.edu

146 ms

www.valdosta.edu

364 ms

css2

78 ms

all.min.css

65 ms

mdb.min.css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Valdosta.edu, 11% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Valdosta.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 157.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Valdosta.edu main page is 4.3 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 72.2 kB

  • Original 85.8 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 15.7 kB, which is 18% 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 72.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 65.9 kB

  • Original 3.8 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB

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. Valdosta images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 305.8 kB
  • After minification 303.9 kB
  • After compression 290.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 82.1 kB
  • After minification 81.8 kB
  • After compression 78.7 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. Valdosta.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (68%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Valdosta. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

valdosta.edu accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

Best Practices

valdosta.edu best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

valdosta.edu SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Valdosta.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 Valdosta.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 Valdosta. 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: