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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

byu.edu

Home - BYU

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

167 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

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About Website

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The official website of Brigham Young University | Provo, UT

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Key Findings

We analyzed Byu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 167 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

byu.edu performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,100 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

byu.edu

167 ms

316 ms

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Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Byu.edu, 73% (55 requests) were made to Home.byu.edu and 12% (9 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (597 ms) relates to the external source Home.byu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (45%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Byu.edu main page is 3.5 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. CSS take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 37.8 kB

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 50.0 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 37.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 44.2 kB

  • Original 984.0 kB
  • After minification 939.8 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. BYU images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 622.2 kB

  • Original 971.5 kB
  • After minification 947.0 kB
  • After compression 349.3 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 622.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 872.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 619.5 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. Byu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 872.4 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (39%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BYU. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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316 ms

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Accessibility Review

byu.edu accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

byu.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

byu.edu SEO score

89

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

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 Byu.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 Byu.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

byu.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BYU. 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: