Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

barnard.edu

Barnard College in New York City

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

45 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

278 ms

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About Website

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Barnard offers a singular combination of: Excellence across the arts and sciences; World-class faculty dedicated to teaching; Tight-knit community with the academic resources of a research university;...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barnard.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barnard.edu performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.0 s

32/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

barnard.edu

45 ms

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22 ms

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22 ms

css_2_C4H8Mrg4ZAonmorrNDSjy_8ZPlB4YthIlvgbs2Tfw.css

23 ms

css_ao8d85e__sCRnfkaVy6bSlOy0Sjc3wUo-u58s2lCKpM.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 670 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Barnard.edu, 90% (601 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com and 1% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (367 ms) relates to the external source Scontent.cdninstagram.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (19%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Barnard.edu main page is 7.1 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. 85% 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 5.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 294.6 kB

  • Original 340.0 kB
  • After minification 330.6 kB
  • After compression 45.4 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 294.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 214.8 kB

  • Original 5.7 MB
  • After minification 5.5 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. Barnard images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 299.4 kB

  • Original 438.4 kB
  • After minification 334.5 kB
  • After compression 138.9 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 299.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 547.3 kB

  • Original 635.4 kB
  • After minification 615.1 kB
  • After compression 88.1 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. Barnard.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 547.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (5%)

Requests Now

665

After Optimization

635

The browser has sent 665 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barnard. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

barnard.edu accessibility score

67

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

[role] values are not valid

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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.

Best Practices

barnard.edu 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

barnard.edu SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Barnard.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 Barnard.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 Barnard. 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: