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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

berkleemusic.com

Berklee Online - Master's and Bachelor's Music Degrees, Certificates, and Courses

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

962 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Berkleemusic.com page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

berkleemusic.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

berkleemusic.com

29 ms

berkleemusic.com

20 ms

online.berklee.edu

138 ms

gtm.js

213 ms

st.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Berkleemusic.com, 36% (43 requests) were made to Assets.online.berklee.edu and 9% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (903 ms) relates to the external source Assets.online.berklee.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 238.8 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Berkleemusic.com main page is 1.8 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. 80% 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 854.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 142.4 kB

  • Original 195.9 kB
  • After minification 192.6 kB
  • After compression 53.6 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 142.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 854.3 kB
  • After minification 842.0 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. Berklee Music images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 569.2 kB
  • After minification 569.2 kB
  • After compression 547.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 62.8 kB

  • Original 190.6 kB
  • After minification 190.4 kB
  • After compression 127.8 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. Berkleemusic.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 62.8 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (61%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Berklee Music. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

berkleemusic.com accessibility score

72

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

berkleemusic.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

berkleemusic.com 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

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 Berkleemusic.com 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 Berkleemusic.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Berklee Music. 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: