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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

is.byu.edu

Accredited Online Courses | BYU Independent Study

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

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About Website

Visit is.byu.edu now to see the best up-to-date Is BYU content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about is.byu.edu

BYU Independent Study is an online educational program that offers more than 500 online courses — university, high school, junior high school and free courses — to people throughout the United States ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Is.byu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

is.byu.edu performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,690 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

1153 ms

style.css

218 ms

modernizr-2.0-basic.min.js

166 ms

jquery.min.js

12 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

977 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Is.byu.edu, 17% (14 requests) were made to Um.simpli.fi and 6% (5 requests) were made to I.simpli.fi. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Is.byu.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.4 kB (84%)

Content Size

433.4 kB

After Optimization

70.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Is.byu.edu main page is 433.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 304.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 280.3 kB

  • Original 304.7 kB
  • After minification 266.9 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 37.8 kB, which is 12% 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 280.3 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 259 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Obviously, Is BYU needs image optimization as it can save up to 259 B or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 82.3 kB

  • Original 126.7 kB
  • After minification 126.7 kB
  • After compression 44.3 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 82.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 484 B

  • Original 773 B
  • After minification 587 B
  • After compression 289 B

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. Is.byu.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 484 B or 63% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (54%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Is 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 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

1153 ms

style.css

style.css

218 ms

modernizr-2.0-basic.min.js

modernizr-2.0-basic.min.js

166 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

12 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.js

977 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css

jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css

973 ms

jquery.quicksearch.js

jquery.quicksearch.js

111 ms

slider.css

slider.css

973 ms

news.css

news.css

973 ms

socialmedia.css

socialmedia.css

974 ms

satelliteLib-1ca2398131a79d35f0142394df183af6d598715c.js

satelliteLib-1ca2398131a79d35f0142394df183af6d598715c.js

34 ms

catalog.js

catalog.js

969 ms

script.js

script.js

160 ms

slider.js

slider.js

165 ms

calendar.js

calendar.js

117 ms

body-linen.png

body-linen.png

221 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

164 ms

is-logo.png

is-logo.png

116 ms

search-button.png

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138 ms

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176 ms

UC-check.png

UC-check.png

182 ms

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280 ms

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287 ms

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421 ms

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438 ms

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445 ms

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469 ms

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544 ms

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553 ms

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632 ms

Technical%20Support%20Live%20Chat.png

Technical%20Support%20Live%20Chat.png

656 ms

shpcart.png

shpcart.png

546 ms

ACTCamp2016-slider-option2.jpg

ACTCamp2016-slider-option2.jpg

729 ms

feature-bg.png

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748 ms

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social-slider3-red.jpg

756 ms

margin.png

margin.png

659 ms

whychooseusED.png

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943 ms

three_types.jpg

three_types.jpg

911 ms

social-icons.png

social-icons.png

809 ms

BYUwordmark.png

BYUwordmark.png

891 ms

dpx.js

dpx.js

15 ms

43483.js

43483.js

224 ms

satellite-56654ff964746d7dbf001c5f.html

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3 ms

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7 ms

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4 ms

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34 ms

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6 ms

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5 ms

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37 ms

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25 ms

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3 ms

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6 ms

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6 ms

lr

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4 ms

lr.gif

lr.gif

6 ms

match_redirect

match_redirect

3 ms

sync

sync

101 ms

tracker.php

tracker.php

94 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

93 ms

catalogdata.json.cfm

catalogdata.json.cfm

599 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

536 ms

match_redirect

match_redirect

19 ms

ecommerce.js

ecommerce.js

18 ms

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collect

26 ms

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collect

19 ms

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CD29559EFF76EE56AFBF305902384E4F

34 ms

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match_redirect

5 ms

ProfilesEngineServlet

ProfilesEngineServlet

13 ms

ProfilesEngineServlet

ProfilesEngineServlet

57 ms

tap.php

tap.php

6 ms

exelate

exelate

3 ms

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29 ms

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spotx_match

7 ms

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fb_match

5 ms

u.php

u.php

66 ms

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7 ms

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5 ms

merge

merge

36 ms

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cw_match

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18 ms

Accessibility Review

is.byu.edu accessibility score

88

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

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

Best Practices

is.byu.edu best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

is.byu.edu SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Is.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 Is.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

is.byu.edu

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