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vsu.edu

Virginia State University

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

499 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vsu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 499 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vsu.edu performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

vsu.edu

499 ms

styles.css

399 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

411 ms

hjz7qyn.js

55 ms

jquery.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (102 requests) were addressed to the original Vsu.edu, 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (499 ms) belongs to the original domain Vsu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 311.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

970.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Vsu.edu main page is 1.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 959.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 43.5 kB

  • Original 49.8 kB
  • After minification 26.1 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 23.7 kB, which is 48% 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 43.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 97.1 kB

  • Original 959.5 kB
  • After minification 862.4 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. Vsu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 57.9 kB

  • Original 133.4 kB
  • After minification 112.8 kB
  • After compression 75.5 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 57.9 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 113.3 kB

  • Original 139.2 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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. Vsu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (49%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vsu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

vsu.edu SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vsu.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Vsu.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 Vsu. 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: