Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

171 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blackboard.hartford.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 171 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blackboard.hartford.edu performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

60/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blackboard.hartford.edu

171 ms

shared.css

93 ms

theme.css

64 ms

app_nav.css

67 ms

colorpalette.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Blackboard.hartford.edu, 26% (13 requests) were made to Hartford.edu and 6% (3 requests) were made to 25livepub.collegenet.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (418 ms) relates to the external source 25livepub.collegenet.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (79%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

312.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Blackboard.hartford.edu main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 931.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 90.4 kB

  • Original 106.8 kB
  • After minification 102.2 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. 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 90.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 35.0 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, Blackboard Hartford needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 745.5 kB

  • Original 931.6 kB
  • After minification 607.0 kB
  • After compression 186.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 745.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 311.2 kB

  • Original 386.5 kB
  • After minification 359.1 kB
  • After compression 75.3 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. Blackboard.hartford.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (62%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blackboard Hartford. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

blackboard.hartford.edu accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

blackboard.hartford.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blackboard.hartford.edu SEO score

67

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 doesn't use 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 Blackboard.hartford.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 Blackboard.hartford.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

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