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shared.css

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theme.css

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brand.css

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Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu, 9% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Bbcontent.theamericancollege.edu. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (185 ms) belongs to the original domain Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu.

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

295.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Blackboard.theamericancollege.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 764.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

Original 43.9 kB
After minification 43.1 kB
After compression 10.0 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 33.9 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

Original 75.6 kB
After minification 68.1 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. Blackboard The American College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 624.4 kB

Original 764.4 kB
After minification 503.7 kB
After compression 140.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 624.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 359.3 kB

Original 436.5 kB
After minification 394.2 kB
After compression 77.1 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. Blackboard.theamericancollege.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 359.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

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After Optimization

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackboard The American College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.