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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

blogs.babson.edu

Babson College Blog | Babson Blogs | Babson College

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

771 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

306 ms

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About Website

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

Whether it s about undergraduate life, graduate studies, news, announcements, or entrepreneurship, the Babson College blog covers it all.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blogs.babson.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 771 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blogs.babson.edu performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,690 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.93

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blogs.babson.edu

771 ms

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Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Blogs.babson.edu, 16% (16 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 10% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (771 ms) belongs to the original domain Blogs.babson.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 329.9 kB (41%)

Content Size

814.0 kB

After Optimization

484.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blogs.babson.edu main page is 814.0 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 342.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 94.8 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 11.6 kB, which is 11% 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 84.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 342.4 kB
  • After minification 322.4 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. Blogs Babson images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 171.1 kB

  • Original 302.6 kB
  • After minification 293.0 kB
  • After compression 131.5 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 171.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 54.0 kB

  • Original 62.5 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. Blogs.babson.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 54.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (57%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blogs 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 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blogs.babson.edu accessibility score

94

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

blogs.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

SEO Factors

blogs.babson.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Blogs.babson.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Blogs.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

blogs.babson.edu

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