Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

biola.edu

Biola University - A Private Christian University in Southern California

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

813 ms

About Website

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Biola University is a nationally ranked private Christian university located in Southern California, and a member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

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Key Findings

We analyzed Biola.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

biola.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

biola.edu

151 ms

www.biola.edu

401 ms

application-502e2987c1ca6269bb636f0dc931633a13b98e289651f08081ebb07d75ea295f.css

42 ms

home-page-e8826b28fb074c2b41c09de1c44f5dcab75092ceb9b7898c508e0f7b77234b6b.css

39 ms

riq0fcm.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Biola.edu, 27% (18 requests) were made to Dhsl8p9ocex96.cloudfront.net and 14% (9 requests) were made to Assets.biola.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (744 ms) relates to the external source Assets.biola.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Biola.edu main page is 1.6 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. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 62.4 kB

  • Original 80.8 kB
  • After minification 80.0 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 62.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Biola images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 320.4 kB
  • After minification 320.3 kB
  • After compression 319.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 154 B

  • Original 46.1 kB
  • After minification 46.0 kB
  • After compression 45.9 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. Biola.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (57%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Biola. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

biola.edu accessibility score

94

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

biola.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

SEO Factors

biola.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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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