Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

baylor.edu

Baylor University | A Nationally Ranked Christian University, Undergraduate & Graduate Research Colleges Universities Schools in Texas

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

591 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

baylor.edu screenshot

About Website

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A top Texas Christian University, As one of the top Texas colleges & Universities, Baylor offers a variety of undergraduate & graduate programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Baylor.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 591 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

baylor.edu performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.082

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.baylor.edu

591 ms

gtm.js

77 ms

ajax-progress.module.css

514 ms

align.module.css

734 ms

autocomplete-loading.module.css

731 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Baylor.edu, 41% (53 requests) were made to Home.web.baylor.edu and 5% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Home.web.baylor.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 526.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Baylor.edu main page is 3.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 519.8 kB

  • Original 637.7 kB
  • After minification 611.6 kB
  • After compression 117.9 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 519.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Baylor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 544 B

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 71.0 kB
  • After compression 70.4 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.0 kB

  • Original 74.2 kB
  • After minification 69.3 kB
  • After compression 68.2 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. Baylor.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (74%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Baylor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 57 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

baylor.edu accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements 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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

baylor.edu best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

baylor.edu SEO score

97

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Baylor.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 Baylor.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 Baylor. 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: