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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

babson.edu

Best College For Entrepreneurship | Babson College

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

41 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Visit babson.edu now to see the best up-to-date Babson content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about babson.edu

Babson College is a top school of business and the best college for entrepreneurship, with campuses in Wellesley, Boston, and Miami.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Babson.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 41 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

babson.edu performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,230 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.061

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

babson.edu

41 ms

www.babson.edu

146 ms

optimize.js

76 ms

normalize.css

24 ms

www__scratch-oho_0624.css

34 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Babson.edu, 3% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source App.leadsrx.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 543.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Babson.edu main page is 4.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 396.8 kB

  • Original 452.0 kB
  • After minification 439.9 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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 396.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 125.0 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Babson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 296.0 kB
  • After minification 293.6 kB
  • After compression 281.2 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 165.7 kB
  • After minification 165.7 kB
  • After compression 158.8 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. Babson.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (55%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

47

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Babson. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

babson.edu

babson.edu

41 ms

www.babson.edu

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146 ms

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24 ms

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34 ms

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50 ms

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61 ms

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60 ms

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250 ms

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61 ms

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128 ms

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188 ms

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371 ms

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185 ms

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Accessibility Review

babson.edu accessibility score

85

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 IDs are not unique

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

babson.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

babson.edu SEO score

85

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 Babson.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 Babson.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

babson.edu

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