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Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

bismarckstate.edu

Bismarck State College - North Dakota's Polytechnic Institution

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

810 ms

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About Website

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

Bismarck State College is North Dakota's Polytechnic Institution. BSC has provided a high quality, affordable college education to the region for more than 75 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bismarckstate.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bismarckstate.edu performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bismarckstate.edu

97 ms

bismarckstate.edu

343 ms

gtm.js

53 ms

foundation.css

84 ms

app.css

166 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (48 requests) were addressed to the original Bismarckstate.edu, 7% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Bismarckstate.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 266.7 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bismarckstate.edu main page is 4.2 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 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 96.1 kB

  • Original 118.9 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 21.8 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 96.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 165.6 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Bismarck State images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 931 B

  • Original 145.3 kB
  • After minification 145.3 kB
  • After compression 144.4 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 43.0 kB
  • After minification 43.0 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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. Bismarckstate.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (19%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bismarck State. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bismarckstate.edu

bismarckstate.edu

97 ms

bismarckstate.edu

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343 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

53 ms

foundation.css

foundation.css

84 ms

app.css

app.css

166 ms

css

css

38 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

244 ms

jquery-ui-1.12.1.min.js

jquery-ui-1.12.1.min.js

362 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

275 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

288 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

395 ms

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300 ms

all.css

all.css

29 ms

logo_small_w.png

logo_small_w.png

55 ms

logo_white_horizontal_poly.png

logo_white_horizontal_poly.png

55 ms

logo_hor_500x117.png

logo_hor_500x117.png

120 ms

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menu_admissions_800x450.jpg

152 ms

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188 ms

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118 ms

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188 ms

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285 ms

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259 ms

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257 ms

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257 ms

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257 ms

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308 ms

Cyber.jpg

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429 ms

Education.jpg

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311 ms

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309 ms

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308 ms

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923 ms

SEM.jpg

SEM.jpg

375 ms

Social-Behaviorial.JPG

Social-Behaviorial.JPG

341 ms

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386 ms

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398 ms

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431 ms

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443 ms

AmyHarris.jpg

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463 ms

student_life.png

student_life.png

1578 ms

event_photo.jpg

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468 ms

logo_hor_393x117.png

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474 ms

bkg_home_student_life.png

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442 ms

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506 ms

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468 ms

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1377 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxM.woff

63 ms

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64 ms

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63 ms

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47 ms

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71 ms

bismarckstate.edu

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361 ms

Web_Slider.jpg

Web_Slider.jpg

700 ms

Accessibility Review

bismarckstate.edu accessibility score

87

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bismarckstate.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

bismarckstate.edu SEO score

96

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 Bismarckstate.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 Bismarckstate.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

bismarckstate.edu

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