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Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

virginiacollege.com

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

252 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virginiacollege.com page load time and found that the first response time was 252 ms and then it took 6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

virginiacollege.com performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

73/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

81/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.vc.edu

252 ms

base.css

75 ms

css

119 ms

2760660692.js

152 ms

plugins.js

109 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Virginiacollege.com, 11% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 787.6 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

915.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virginiacollege.com main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 779.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 25.5 kB

  • Original 34.6 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 3.7 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 25.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 554.6 kB
  • After minification 549.8 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. Virginiacollege images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 483.0 kB

  • Original 779.8 kB
  • After minification 769.8 kB
  • After compression 296.8 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 483.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 274.4 kB

  • Original 334.0 kB
  • After minification 333.6 kB
  • After compression 59.6 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. Virginiacollege.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 274.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (61%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Virginiacollege. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.vc.edu

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252 ms

base.css

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75 ms

css

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119 ms

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analytics.js

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bat.js

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Accessibility Review

virginiacollege.com accessibility score

86

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

virginiacollege.com 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

virginiacollege.com SEO score

100

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

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 Virginiacollege.com 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 Virginiacollege.com 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Virginiacollege. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: