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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

online.hbs.edu

Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

320 ms

Page Rendered

869 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Online.hbs.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 1.2 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

online.hbs.edu performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

44/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

online.hbs.edu

16 ms

online.hbs.edu

21 ms

10025085-10024731.js

49 ms

newsletter.css

45 ms

jquery.min.js

77 ms

Our browser made a total of 35 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Online.hbs.edu, 43% (15 requests) were made to Cloudinary.hbs.edu and 23% (8 requests) were made to Webassets.hbs.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (204 ms) relates to the external source Cloudinary.hbs.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 349.1 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

713.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Online.hbs.edu main page is 1.1 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 492.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 186.8 kB

  • Original 228.7 kB
  • After minification 210.7 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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 186.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 492.8 kB
  • After minification 492.8 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. Online Hbs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 161.8 kB

  • Original 338.9 kB
  • After minification 338.9 kB
  • After compression 177.1 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 161.8 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 507 B

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Online.hbs.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 507 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (21%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Online Hbs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

online.hbs.edu accessibility score

93

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

online.hbs.edu best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

online.hbs.edu SEO score

76

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

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

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 Online.hbs.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 Online.hbs.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 Online Hbs. 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: