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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

dbu.edu

Christian University, Online Christian University, Christian College Dallas

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

78 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Dbu content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dbu.edu

A Christian university located in Dallas, Texas: DBU offers outstanding Christian undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and online degree programs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dbu.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 78 ms and then it took 3.7 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

dbu.edu performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,540 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.56

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.6 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dbu.edu

78 ms

dbu.edu

184 ms

www.dbu.edu

274 ms

font-awesome.min.css

236 ms

bootstrap.min.css

265 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Dbu.edu, 13% (12 requests) were made to Wwwdbueducdn.azureedge.net and 11% (10 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Wwwdbueducdn.azureedge.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 293.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dbu.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. 80% 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 268.3 kB

  • Original 318.8 kB
  • After minification 284.7 kB
  • After compression 50.4 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 34.0 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 268.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 22.8 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.5 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. Dbu images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 268.9 kB
  • After minification 268.8 kB
  • After compression 267.2 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 289 B

  • Original 102.0 kB
  • After minification 102.0 kB
  • After compression 101.8 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. Dbu.edu has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (47%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dbu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dbu.edu

dbu.edu

78 ms

dbu.edu

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184 ms

www.dbu.edu

www.dbu.edu

274 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

236 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

265 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

299 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

272 ms

dark.min.css

dark.min.css

275 ms

font-icons-2022.min.css

font-icons-2022.min.css

277 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

327 ms

typekit.min.css

typekit.min.css

310 ms

responsive.min.css

responsive.min.css

324 ms

dbu.min.css

dbu.min.css

320 ms

desktop.webp

desktop.webp

848 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

325 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

274 ms

jquery.touchswipe.min.js

jquery.touchswipe.min.js

335 ms

plugins.min.js

plugins.min.js

609 ms

functions.min.js

functions.min.js

335 ms

p.css

p.css

36 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

323 ms

logo-navy.svg

logo-navy.svg

299 ms

dbu-patriots.svg

dbu-patriots.svg

298 ms

basketball.jpg

basketball.jpg

777 ms

become-a-patriot-student.jpg

become-a-patriot-student.jpg

470 ms

susie-cassel-dbu-home.jpg

susie-cassel-dbu-home.jpg

302 ms

baylor-dbu-dbu-home.jpg

baylor-dbu-dbu-home.jpg

469 ms

service-dbu-home.jpg

service-dbu-home.jpg

469 ms

megan.jpg

megan.jpg

469 ms

sam-lac.jpg

sam-lac.jpg

613 ms

cicely.jpg

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775 ms

stephen.jpg

stephen.jpg

614 ms

becky.jpg

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612 ms

brian.jpg

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612 ms

chapel-quad-students-desktop.jpg

chapel-quad-students-desktop.jpg

613 ms

desktop-2.jpg

desktop-2.jpg

611 ms

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desktop-2.jpg

612 ms

desktop.jpg

desktop.jpg

614 ms

patriot-man-2-desktop.jpg

patriot-man-2-desktop.jpg

611 ms

thank-you-desktop.jpg

thank-you-desktop.jpg

1032 ms

desktop.jpg

desktop.jpg

1089 ms

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1110 ms

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1090 ms

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1069 ms

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font-icons.ttf

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1066 ms

lined-icons.ttf

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785 ms

desktop.jpg

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1025 ms

campus.jpg

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1106 ms

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369 ms

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513 ms

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

914 ms

Simple-Line-Icons.ttf

Simple-Line-Icons.ttf

800 ms

js

js

200 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

531 ms

destination

destination

391 ms

hotjar-498874.js

hotjar-498874.js

591 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

611 ms

destination

destination

351 ms

destination

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386 ms

fbevents.js

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520 ms

gm.js

gm.js

924 ms

monsido-script.js

monsido-script.js

603 ms

async_survey

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640 ms

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637 ms

ping

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603 ms

adp.min.js

adp.min.js

640 ms

coffeeshop-web.jpg

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534 ms

grad-student-web.jpg

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570 ms

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518 ms

swat-web.jpg

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352 ms

collect

collect

106 ms

collect

collect

144 ms

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110 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

164 ms

clarity.js

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24 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

52 ms

print.min.css

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42 ms

mtc.js

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301 ms

tracking.monsido.com

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froogaloop2.min.js

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22 ms

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7 ms

Accessibility Review

dbu.edu accessibility score

83

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

dbu.edu best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

dbu.edu SEO score

81

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Dbu.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 Dbu.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

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