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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

bridgewater.college

Bridgewater College, Virginia | Private, Liberal Arts College

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

17 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Bridgewater content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bridgewater.college

Bridgewater College in Virginia offers a private college experience at a public college cost with strong academics, affordability, diversity and a vibrant campus.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bridgewater.college page load time and found that the first response time was 17 ms and then it took 4 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

bridgewater.college performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,470 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bridgewater.college

17 ms

www.bridgewater.edu

761 ms

gtm.js

95 ms

accessibility.min.css

13 ms

tribe-events-full.min.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 156 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bridgewater.college, 76% (119 requests) were made to Bridgewater.edu and 3% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Trkn.us.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

6.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bridgewater.college main page is 7.1 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 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 149.7 kB

  • Original 188.9 kB
  • After minification 179.0 kB
  • After compression 39.2 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 149.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 83.8 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Bridgewater images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 848.4 kB
  • After minification 846.9 kB
  • After compression 835.9 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 235.1 kB
  • After minification 235.1 kB
  • After compression 233.2 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. Bridgewater.college has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 123 (83%)

Requests Now

148

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 148 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bridgewater. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 83 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 36 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bridgewater.college accessibility score

76

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

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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

bridgewater.college 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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bridgewater.college 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

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 Bridgewater.college 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 Bridgewater.college 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

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